MOONGAYTE

by lyndon mallet

You don’t mess with MOONGAYTE residents. Theirs is a peaceful town and they would prefer it to stay that way. This is a place where the air smells fresh, rain or shine; where interesting clouds scud over wild greenery and the loudest unnatural sounds might be the scream of a buzz-saw or the drone of a distant tractor. If you come to Moongayte you’ll wonder why anyone would want to disturb it. A small voice might tell you, ‘I could be peaceful in a place like this.’ And so you could, so long as you learnt what not to know and when to look the other way. As the residents say, you either belong in Moongayte or you’ll never understand it. Moongayte is a fast moving story about what happens when corporate power and national government lock horns with the people who call this town home.

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 26, 2012

About the author

Lyndon Mallet is a British novelist and cartoonist with film, TV and radio credits to his name. He started writing in his teens and became road manager of a flying circus in exchange for being taught to fly, before embarking on a career in advertising. His most well known literary creation is the Irish debt collector Mark Taffin. The first novel "Taffin" was published in 1980 and made into a movie starring Pierce Brosnan in 1988. He has written four Taffin novels. He was a staff writer on the famous British television crime drama The Bill from 1993 - 1998 and is credited for nine episodes.

Reviews

[Kathryn Mechling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done!!!

Another great book by Lyndon Mallet. If you haven't read any of his books, i highly recommend you give him a try....you'll be glad you did!!

[arjuna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essentially "Taffin" rewritten for modern-day audience. I prefer the original but that may simply be a matter of familiarity ; it was interesting to see how the story needed to change to "fit" today's climate. A tantalising sense of verging on, but backing away from, stringently impolite commentary on government by capital interests. Most enjoyable - especially Highwater's fleshing out.