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Let’s Go… Australia

She’s hot, punishingly hot in the out woopwoop town of Wilbrook on the Pilbara plateau in Western Australia, the location of James Delargy’s thriller 55.

Usually, Sergeant Chandler Jenkins has a quiet, predictable life, punctuated occasionally by the necessity of checking male rage — biffos at one of the town’s pubs, and incidents of domestic violence, et cetera. The caring single parent (the full-of-beans wife has lit out for Perth) likes the familiarity of his scarred home town

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