Point Danger

Description

Plant is resting on his lantana farm in the Valley of the Weed, bored and happily idle.
Until Fullalove comes to stay and sniffs out a string of potential conspiracies. The well-stocked second-hand bookshop that doesn’t list its books on-line. The on-line progressive journal of correct opinion, Mad, Bad and Dangerous. The sexsational novelist Mandy Mittelnacht. And Shameless Seamus, the dodgy journalist and his no less dodgy editor, Gilbert Osbourne.

‘Where typical thrillers have mindless action, Wilding provides high-speed subconsciously revealing dialogue, and touch and go referentially … Equally, the action, as reported by unreliable narrators, is open to various interpretations about ranges of deception where Plant can speculate but hardly contemplate. Such levels of complexity are made to seem entirely convincing and natural by the fluent progress of Wilding’s frictionless prose style – but one that can pause to remind us we are reading a major novelist.’ Stephen Knight, Sydney Review of Books.