Cirrus@Austlit

'Welcome to the City. A place where Salvation is a large red neon sign and truth is as flammable as an acrylic sun frock.

''bigjesustrashcan' is high camp film noir, written for those who like their humour rich and black - from Kiki, the self-styled evangelist on a mission from God, to the Reverend, a former child molester and current Investment Manager for the Church of the Second Coming; from Toshio Iwata, would-be purchaser of a large piece of fibreglass fruit, to the sisters of the Transglobal Lesbian Coalition - this story is a lurid tabloid tapestry of off-the-wall characters in a city where too much religion and intrigue is barely enough.' (Publication summary)

'Night falls here in the City that never wakes up, let alone sleeps. It’s 1991, and as bombs fall over Baghdad, the inhabitants of this Antipodean ‘Big Easy’ are about to learn that February, and not April, is indeed the cruellest month. This is a Noir-on-acid crime novel that packs more punch than a Colt. 45.' (Publication summary)