You're driving along a lonely outback road when suddenly a kangaroo leaps out in front of you. Your car is wrecked and then things rapidly go downhill from there as you find yourself under attack from a pack of wild dogs. Having survived that, you cross bloody paths with a pair of violent criminals who've murdered two people on a remote Aboriginal community.<br> <br>And then things go REALLY pear-shaped as you find yourself caught up on a rollercoaster of bloody revenge that takes you to the other side of the globe and to the edge of madness.<br>Sorry Time is a breakneck story that offers a rich and entertaining reading experience, and will travel well to film. You'll meet a cast of memorable characters like Glen of the Outback, who claims to be the man in the orange T-shirt in a David Bowie clip, and rat-faced mortuary attendant Mal Kite, who runs a profitable sideline stealing valuables from bodies. And last but not least, the villain of the piece, Ali Fazir, a meth addict with a penchant for beheading. The story is steeped in an ominous, occult sub-current as Dreamtime spirits lash out after the removal of a fabulous opal from an Aboriginal burial ground.
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Anthony Maguire. Sorry Time
1 THE OWNER HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
2 DANGER: KANGAROOS CROSSING
3 THE PACK IS HUNGRY
4 ST CATHERINE’S
5 MEET ALI AND ABDUL
6 HEAD OF BEHEADING
7 ROAST ROO
8 RUBY’S NIGHTMARE
9 SORRY TIME
10 DOMESTIC BLISS
11 FIREBALL
12 EYE OF THE STORM
13 WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH
14 SO HELP ME GOD
15 ALI’S DEMON
16 A SMALL PROBLEM
17 PAYBACK
18 OPAL CAPITAL
19 THE BIG BLOKE WITH A GOATEE
20 VENOMOUS VISITOR
21 LET’S FINISH THIS
22 DEATH OF A THOUSAND CUTS
23 GLEN OF THE OUTBACK
24 MONEY TALKS
25 THE PIKES
26 THE FAMILY BUSINESS
27 ARE YOU IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING?
28 RENATA, PETRA AND RUDI
29 AUF WIEDERSEN
30 THERE’S A MAN CALLED JIANG FENG …
31 COLD CALLING
32 THE GODS NEED A SACRIFICE
33 KISS GOODBYE
34 ROAD RAGE
35 DEATH COMES KNOCKING
36 MUM SENDS HER LOVE
37 THE FRIDGE
38 WRITING ON THE WALL
39 CONTROL + ALT + DEL
40 MORTAL KOMBAT
41 CALL TO PRAYERS
42 A CRUEL PLACE
43 INSHALLAH
44 EYE FOR AN EYE
45 DEJA VU
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DR JONATHAN CHASELING – young, bearded and hipsterish-looking – navigated his car around ruts and potholes on a relentlessly straight, orange-red dirt track stretching away to infinity. Up ahead he saw a lone tree, a ghost gum with thin, white branches reaching for the sky like skeletal hands.
A few minutes later, he parked near the tree, which was growing in a hollow beside the track. There was no mobile reception here, so he couldn’t take a GPS fix or use Google Maps, but the tree was a landmark that would help him find his way back to the car, a RAV4, normally white but now coated with red dust.
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‘Yes.’ Then Davie realised what he’d said and put his hand over his mouth, to another chorus of laughter from his father and grandfather. These people laugh easily, Chaseling thought to himself.
Clarrie steered them off the bitumen onto a rutted, potholed dirt track, where the wheels juddered along a series of corrugations – ribs of compacted dirt and stone. Chaseling’s head almost hit the roof and he settled deeper into the lumpy seat. ‘Now it’s your turn to ask the questions,’ he told Davie.
