'Career cop Detective Senior Sergeant Tony 'Rocket' Laver is a policeman with issues.
Sure, he may have been returning fire, but the fact remains that Laver is the sixth Victorian policeman
to shoot a suspect in four months, and that's all the politicians need to get involved. While the circus
of an inquiry begins, Laver is moved from Major Crime to the Mobile Public Interaction Squad ... aka
the mountain bike police. Bitter, struggling to cope with the fatal shooting - not to mention his flailing
relationship, Rocket is now wearing lycra and getting a sore butt on his bike seat.
Laver's friends and bosses in the force tell him to keep his head down until the storm blows over, but
that doesn't factor in Stig and the Wild Man, two genuine bad guys Laver encounters on Smith Street,
Collingwood. In innercity and outer-suburban Melbourne, major crime is in the air. Lives might be in
danger but nobody will listen to a cop on the outer.
Add a nerdy supermarket-assistant manager in a bad reggae beanie, a hippy chick intent on saving
the world, Nazi-like police rookies, mysterious men in suits and a human koala and you've got what it
takes for a blackly funny action-packed addition to your spring/summer reading.' (Publisher's blurb)
