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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Sun Is God
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'It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation. He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German, as Hauptmann Kessler, the local government representative.

'So it is that Kessler approaches Will one hot afternoon, with a request for his help with a problem on a neighbouring island, inhabited by a reclusive, cultish group of European 'cocovores', who believe that sun worship and eating only coconuts will bring them eternal life. Unfortunately, one of their number has died in suspicious circumstances, and Kessler has been tasked with uncovering the real reason for his demise. So along with a 'lady traveller', Bessie Pullen- Burry, who is foisted on them by the archipelago's eccentric owner, they travel to the island of Kabakon, to find out what is really going on.' (Publication summary)

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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Serpent's Tail ,
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      Extent: 288p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2014
      ISBN: 9781846689833

Works about this Work

The Hunt to Reveal the Bare Facts of Murder Sue Turnbull , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 37) The Age , 17 January 2015; (p. 29)

— Review of The Sun Is God Adrian McKinty , 2014 single work novel ; Crucifixion Creek Barry Maitland , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Sun Is God Leslie Lightfoot , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December 2014; (p. 42)

— Review of The Sun Is God Adrian McKinty , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Sun Is God Leslie Lightfoot , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December 2014; (p. 42)

— Review of The Sun Is God Adrian McKinty , 2014 single work novel
The Hunt to Reveal the Bare Facts of Murder Sue Turnbull , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 January 2015; (p. 37) The Age , 17 January 2015; (p. 29)

— Review of The Sun Is God Adrian McKinty , 2014 single work novel ; Crucifixion Creek Barry Maitland , 2014 single work novel
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