A Man You Can Bank On

A Man You Can Bank On
Derek Hansen
Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 336pg
28 Jun 2011 AU
9780733628054
Out of Print
Lambert Hampton is the man the small, drought-ravaged country town of Munni-Munni turn to when they uncover $3 million stolen from bookies by ruthless bandits and buried seemingly in the middle of nowhere.A former bank manager, Lambert uses the money and his considerable entrepreneurial skills to rescue the town and set it on a viable, economic footing.The day of reckoning comes when the criminals are released from gaol.The crims want the money. The cops want the money. A rogue insurance investigator wants the money. And so do Australia's two most notorious hit men. In trying to save his town and all he's achieved, Lambert is forced to risk everything his life, the lives of the town folk, his own daughter, ten thousand barramundi and a really lovable Jack Russell.
Derek was born in London in June 1944 and at the age of four he convinced his parents to emigrate to Auckland, where he lived for the next sixteen years. His writing talent took him to London in the sixties where his quirky style and commercial instincts brought a rapid rise through the ranks to the country s top advertising agency. Derek was lured to Australia and spent the next twenty-five years doing ads and wishing he was writing novels instead. One day over lunch Derek had the bright idea of breaking his fiction manuscript down into bite-sized pieces and so the idea for the Lunch series was born. LUNCH WITH THE GENERALS became an instant bestseller in Australasia and was sold into Britain, Scandinavia, France and Germany. His later novel, SOLE SURVIVOR, was also a bestseller and has been reprinted many times. Derek has written a further five novels and three collections of short stories. He is married, has two grown-up children and lives in Avalon on Pittwater, with some time spent in Doonan on Queensland s Sunshine Coast. On the whole, the fishing is better in Pittwater. Previous Books: LUNCH WITH THE GENERALS, LUNCH WITH MUSSOLINI, LUNCH WITH THE STATIONMASTER, LUNCH WITH A SOLDIER, SOLE SURVIVOR, BLOCKADE, PERFECT COUPLE, REMEMBER ME, DEAD FISHY, SOMETHING FISH, PSYCHO CAT.
Status: Out of Print
ISBN-13: 9780733628054
Published: 28 Jun 2011
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 336
Dewey: 823.3

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