Full name: The Low Road: A Novel

Author: Chris Womersley Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781402798634 9781921215476 1402798636 192121547X

Unflinching, relentless, and powerfully written, The Low Road paints a searing portrait of two desperate men thrown together by chance as they both try to flee their troubled pasts. This savage noir surprises and grips at every turn. Young petty criminal Lee wakes up in a seedy motel with a bullet in his side, a suitcase of stolen money, and only a hazy idea of how he got there. Wild, a drug-addicted doctor also taking refuge at the motel, is forced by the proprietor to save Lee's life--and move him out before the police show up. Connected by this twist of fate, the two strangers go on the lam, becoming the wariest of traveling companions. As the two men reflect on how they arrived at this point in their lives, the past pursues them in the form of an aging gangster determined to retrieve Lee's suitcase of money--and punish him for the theft. Award-winning and critically acclaimed, The Low Road seduces readers with its poetic language and unique and indelible protagonists. Similar books: Scrublands by Chris Hammer Shooting Star by Peter Temple Black Tide by Peter Temple Stiff by Shane Maloney The Broken Shore by Peter Temple Port Vila Blues by Garry Disher The Art of the Engine Driver by Steven Carroll Something Fishy by Shane Maloney Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop by Amy Witting An Iron Rose by Peter Temple Mateship with Birds by Carrie Tiffany Five Bells by Gail Jones Dark Palace by Frank Moorhouse Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher Clean Straw for Nothing by George Johnston