John Sullivan John Sullivan i(A144869 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon The Dream of the Red Dragon John Sullivan , Moorooka : Boolarong Press , 2016 9403239 2016 single work novel crime

'Alby Leung teaches English at the China Australia Management Training Institute in Shanghai, a goodwill project designed in Canberra, blessed in Beijing. Due to a misreading of his sketchy military credentials, he also acts as the projects informal security chief. Unaware of his limitations, his boss instructs him to save an old friend’s husband, a dubious character entangled in a local business wrangle. This lands the ill equipped Alby in a treacherous world of double dealing merchants, bent officials, murderous gangsters and hostile police, a scene overshadowed by the heated rivalry of Australia’s old ally, America, and her new best friend, China... a most unsettling climate for expat team-members deep in the Red Dragons den.'  (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon The Dragon in Spring John Sullivan , Salisbury : Boolarong Press , 2013 14752572 2013 single work novel thriller

'Alby Leung reckons the bloke offering the security gig is a nutbag. The bloke reckons Alby is some sort of military hardcase. Says he’ll place him in his team as an English teacher. Be weird enough if he was a teacher and army thug. But Alby's a tradie and staunch noncombatant. Still, heâ's being offered serious bucks, a flat rent free in hip Huangpu district, and it's an AusAID training project for God's sake? So what harm can there be? Well, plenty as it turns out. All starts with a missing workmate. Soon, Alby, is sinking in a swamp of killers, gangsters, bent bureaucrats and angry security officers.'

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1 1 y separately published work icon Fire Bug John Sullivan , Salisbury : Boolarong Press , 2010 Z1837536 2010 single work novel 'The Whisky Flat firebug has capped a busy two years with his most impressive light-up yet, generating new peaks of fear and bitterness. A very credible rumor links the pest to a big city corporation, hired to scare residents off land targetted for redevelopment. As the blaze closes on Whisky Flat township, nine-year-old Donny O'Brien goes missing, purportedly abducted by the developer to make his parents part with a key parcel of land. But Donny's dog and his next-door neighbor, Miss Ethel Madden, also vanish, upsetting the popular theory and, as the fire spreads, becoming the focus of problems nobody has imagined.' (Publisher's blurb)
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