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Inside Out
Ex-bouncer Dave Bennett is released from prison, determined to go reasonably straight. A drug boss owes him $300,000 and refuses to pay up unless Dave finds his run-away daughter. Bullets are soon flying and Dave discovers that life outside is far more dangerous than it was inside. A humorous Australian crime novel with some special twists.
147 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 27, 2016
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Peter Menadue
22 books4 followersPeter Menadue was a non-award winning print journalist before studying law at Sydney University and Oxford University. For the last twenty years he has practiced as a barrister in Sydney, Australia. He also writes courtroom novels under the pseudonym "Mark Dryden"
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April 23, 2021
Did you always want to read a mob book? Maybe just a small mob? Maybe where every character is a caricature of the person they represent? This story contains satire, humor and plenty of stupidity. Perhaps this is where the "dumb criminal" caricature came from. Not quite slapstick, but it's close.
July 22, 2025
This is the improved version?
I make no pretense that I could write a better crime novel, but at this point I'm pretty sure AI could. Nobody in this book has any redeeming quality, intelligence or humor. It is purely a recitation of a bunch of losers trying and sometimes succeeding in killing each other over drugs and money. QED.
I make no pretense that I could write a better crime novel, but at this point I'm pretty sure AI could. Nobody in this book has any redeeming quality, intelligence or humor. It is purely a recitation of a bunch of losers trying and sometimes succeeding in killing each other over drugs and money. QED.
February 11, 2017
Dave Bennett has just got out of prison after doing 3 years and all he wants is to get paid the $300,000 his drug dealing, strip club owning, police bribing and general scum bag boss said he would give him if he did his time. Things don't go according to plan and Dave has to think fast on his feet to stay alive.
Set in Sydney this is an enjoyable read about the life of those who live outside the law. It's highly reminiscent of the Les Norton books by Robert G. Barrett which I enjoy. Though the ending of this is a bit too rushed and in places it does kind of lose it's way. Still worth a quick read.
Set in Sydney this is an enjoyable read about the life of those who live outside the law. It's highly reminiscent of the Les Norton books by Robert G. Barrett which I enjoy. Though the ending of this is a bit too rushed and in places it does kind of lose it's way. Still worth a quick read.
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