content: This book on the life and crimes of Harry Lavender seems to lack the intesity that books need in today`s society. Set in Sydney the book is written on the basis that the reader has been there. Marele Day seems to have put to much complication into it for th average reader. It is a book which seems to relate in someway to the film "the big Sleep" in that the reader has to figure alot of stuff out by himself. All in all the author has gone into a bit too much detail.