Andrew Croome Andrew Croome i(A118094 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1980 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Two Pound Rainbow Andrew Croome , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 9 no. 1 2014;
1 Truth Doesn’t Have a Narrative: An Interview with Nigel Featherstone Andrew Croome , 2013 single work interview
— Appears in: Island , Spring no. 134 2013; (p. 56-60)
1 8 y separately published work icon Midnight Empire Andrew Croome , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2012 Z1872600 2012 single work novel thriller

'Las Vegas, Nevada. Young Australian computer programmer Daniel Carter has arrived at the heart of the American war machine - the drone program at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs.

'Naive, untested, but keen to make a difference, he is plunged headlong into America's surreal battle against its enemies in the Middle East - a battle fought at a distance of 7,000 miles from a city where nothing is real.

'As geographic and political boundaries blur, Daniel enters into an unlikely romance with a professional poker player, Ania. But when the hunt for an Al Qaeda master-mind ramps up in the skies over Peshawar, and American pilots begin to die in the suburbs of Las Vegas, events take a devastating turn.

'A novel of a new kind of war, of love and connection in the modern age, Midnight Empire is a powerful thriller that takes us to the troubling epicentre of a foreshortening world. It is a taut and at times terrifying vision of a world without frontiers, a novel about dangerous new realities and how they threaten to transform us.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Profile : Andrew Croome Andrew Croome , 2011 single work autobiography
— Appears in: ACTWrite , August vol. 17 no. 7 2011; (p. 3)
1 On the Spot : Andrew Croome, Writer Andrew Croome , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2008; (p. 3)
1 Brave New Worlds Andrew Croome , 2008 extract novel thriller (Document Z)
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 September 2008; (p. 8-9)
1 18 y separately published work icon Document Z Andrew Croome , 2008 Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009 Z1529256 2008 single work novel thriller

'On an electric night in 1954, Evdokia Petrov, a Russian intelligence worker from the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, arrives at Mascot Aerodrome as a prisoner of her colleagues. Her husband has defected. She is returning to Moscow where under Soviet law, she will be punished for his crime. A novel from the shadows, Document Z draws the story of the Petrov Affair from ASIO's archive of the event. It is a tale of lies and betrayal, the Cold War on Australian soil.'

Source: Allen & Unwin website, http://www.allenandunwin.com/
Sighted: 15/09/2008

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