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When a knife-wielding thug shatters a shy young Asian woman's lunch break with a vicious attack on her dog Bromo Perkins, lover of Lagavulin and double espressos, returns to the mean streets of Richmond. By next morning the woman is found brutally murdered, her body revealed as the hiding place for a clutch of illegal diamonds.The gruesome murder lures disgraced secret service agent Bromo Perkins from his would-be reclusive life in an Australian inner-city suburb and opens old wounds from a dangerous mission to Sri Lanka. Mugged and threatened, he is soon dragged back into the murky world of his past as he becomes involved with a group of mercenaries, a sex-crazed businesswoman and the dark and murderous international trade in blood diamonds.The trail of deceit and duplicity leads him to England's remote southwest where threats from an enigmatic tycoon to his daughter's life persuade him to connive in an explosive climax that rocks the back streets of his beloved Richmond.
A severe beating brings disabled youth Tek Firbank close to death when he decides operating a drone could be much more than a hobby and he tries selling the idea to standover man Stan Probert. His sleazy agent, Carl Larkins, ends up stripped and naked on the seafront when Proberts henchmen give him a working over. Meanwhile an elderly Greek couple are brutally beaten and their milk bar trashed for resisting Proberts demands for protection money.Disgraced former spy and reluctant sleuth Bromo Perkins is prevailed upon to resurrect his past connections and investigate inroads being made by the Bulgarian mafia. Only then are connections made between the three events and a separate investigation into underworld activities attracting the attention of Bromos former lover and Federal agent Delia Dunstan.
Disgraced undercover agent Bromo Perkins becomes a reluctant sleuth when he tries to unmask the people threatening to release revealing pictures of his past life. An alluring blonde who interrupts his coffee break brings death and mayhem in her wake and he is soon enmeshed in the activities of a vengeful group of women campaigning against internet porn and fraudulent dating sites. A trendy art gallery becomes the setting for a ghoulish warning to its double-dealing owner. The waters become further muddied by murky and violent dealings among the cosmopolitan suburb's property developers and local government bureaucrats. When a mysterious Goth helps him unveil bribery and corruption among local property developers Bromo is dragged ever deeper into a turf war where murder is the only solution. Eventually a violent punch-up at a dubious nightclub and a secret raid on City Hall lead to a thrilling but deadly climax in the grounds of the famed MCG sports arena.
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