Red Herring

“Evil little bastard. They can give you a nasty scratch. The koalas, I mean, not your kids!”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking: it’s an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances. Well you’re not the Mikado and I’m not Mr Gilbert.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Detective Up Late

“She reflected that the Mad Max movies had been skillfully edited to erase the actual tedium of driving through outback Australia.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island

“Children were fishing lines entangling you in their cruelties and wants and sticky fingers and dramas and disappointments. The mommy industrial complex made you think it was all going to be hugs and campfires, and peewee soccer practices, and that was all bullshit.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Island