by andrez bergen and graeme jackson
"A little redhead named Junie Mills, aged six, the latest preteen to be disappeared in this town.
I wondered if she’d freak out, but the kid was a million times more resilient than me at her age."
"Which is how, I guess, the night started – damp – but with feet better set on terra firma, regardless of class insults from a man who inherited his media empire."
Notes.
The dramatic story of the piece, though with a tongue firmly held in cheek (in the noir tradition) — and some ripping dialogue exchanges.
Jim Falk moonlights as daring Cape Crash Soirée, but he has to pay his daily dues as a long-suffering reporter for the Port Phillip Patriot newspaper. He and the broadsheet have a long history, dating back to when he was a cub. One of his fist stories was on the busting of a child abduction gang (see the Bullet Gal novel, and headline story above).
Junie Mills is a bubblegum-masticating teenager now, carrying a degree of repressed anger relating to that childhood trauma, and is determined to live up to her saviour Bullet Gal's legacy — by assuming the role of justice-delivering gunslinger herself.
Carrying a grudge and a dark past, Calamity Jane attempts to kill our fledgling hero in his very first two pages.
There's a semi-autonomous inter-agency organization called A.E.G.I.S. that is supposed to take the lead in combating criminal and terrorist groups, yet now threatens the status quo with multiple infringements on human rights and due process.
What's millionaire heiress Maggie L'Oiseau got to do with this mess?
And who the hell is the Taipan?
These things are just tips of miniature icebergs in the grand plan for Crash Soirée.
Jim Falk moonlights as daring Cape Crash Soirée, but he has to pay his daily dues as a long-suffering reporter for the Port Phillip Patriot newspaper. He and the broadsheet have a long history, dating back to when he was a cub. One of his fist stories was on the busting of a child abduction gang (see the Bullet Gal novel, and headline story above).
Junie Mills is a bubblegum-masticating teenager now, carrying a degree of repressed anger relating to that childhood trauma, and is determined to live up to her saviour Bullet Gal's legacy — by assuming the role of justice-delivering gunslinger herself.
Carrying a grudge and a dark past, Calamity Jane attempts to kill our fledgling hero in his very first two pages.
There's a semi-autonomous inter-agency organization called A.E.G.I.S. that is supposed to take the lead in combating criminal and terrorist groups, yet now threatens the status quo with multiple infringements on human rights and due process.
What's millionaire heiress Maggie L'Oiseau got to do with this mess?
And who the hell is the Taipan?
These things are just tips of miniature icebergs in the grand plan for Crash Soirée.