Clear eyed, uncompromising and compelling, Teeth Kicker enters the Newcastle crime scene from the basement and tells its story from the underside, giving voice to the invisible casualties of a brutal, corrupt sub-sub-culture of addicts, debtors, thieves, gamblers, dealers and bottom feeder thugs.
We meet Vincent, who has a goodish heart and a genius for making poor decisions, and his brother Ray, who lost an arm to one of those decisions, and seems compelled to make a few monumentally poor decisions of his own. We also meet Machine, a brilliantly realised crim with a warehouse of issues of his own. And Henrietta, who just wants to be loved for herself.
Teeth Kicker is a pacy, raw, character driven crime novel with the heart of a Miles Franklin winner. If you loved Mr Inbetween and Two Hands, you're sure to find what you've been missing in Teeth Kicker.
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