Shooter

by Robert Peterson

Overview

ANGUS SCOTSON (POV) is a migrant with a past life in the British Armed Forces. He falls in love with the Northern Territory operating Happy Tours to shoot/catch/photograph feral wildlife and the elusive barramundi. Tourists chance against retaliatory targets. Injuries and deaths persist.
Angus hires ex-army Aboriginal TOMMY WONGAMUNJI who cooks bush tucker and relates dreamtime tales to tourists. Tommy gains access to tribal lands for tours, speaks local dialects, bruised use of English language and his tribal customs.
Angus puts on a weekend fair tour display that turns into a circus ending in jail. American tourists and Mexican drug lords trick Happy Tours to rendezvous with imported drug hauls. Tommy cooks up a special meal with bush herbs and spices to die for when life arrives at the sunset stage.
More criminals turn up.
Angus orders coffee at widowed CAROL’s diner and they begin a relationship. His ex-girlfriend MADELINE offloads their daughter CERISE with him for a month juggling life as a tour operator with a stroppy young girl.
Angus and Tommy win a jackpotted syndicate lottery. An Aboriginal’s sharing culture alienates a friendship of white and black customs. Madeline arrives to pick up Cerise, who bolts and hides. Madeline calls in the police, welfare and a lawyer.
Angus buys a goat farm, its lagoons stocked with fish and numerous fauna that he calls paradise. Carol sells her diner to be with silly goats.
The drug cartel catches up with Angus, shooting at the homestead and his prized goats. Carol wanders off and becomes lost. DORIS, Angus’s mother, arrives unannounced from England.
Angus envelopes a panorama of his friends, the lottery win, the goats and a tropical paradise before the Devil takes another lesson in hunting and drinks Angus’s unfinished beer.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045189972
Publisher:	Robert Peterson
Publication date:	08/02/2013
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The Author grew up in North Queensland in the wettest town in Australia, as oldest of three boys after his elder sister suspiciously drowned in the Babinda Creek. He achieved an Associate Degree in Agriculture at Gatton Campus of Queensland University. Began serious writing on retirement after joining a local writing club and Writing.com. Accomplished writing awards at school and local shows, wrote agricultural extension and research articles, monthly farm memos and local newspapers over 20 years and collection of sensitive security metadata on a diamond mine. Humour arose as positive energy-challenging dimples of 30plus surgical operations over his life. The Author’s written work is Australian fiction reworked from numerous assumed bush homicides garnered while imbibing over a bar, around a campfire or out fishing on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Author’s non-fiction life’s work competes as a Guinness Records tag for life’s stuff-ups, such as riding on a large crocodile, bitten by snakes, a giant eel, a stonefish, tiger sharks, gored and kicked by horses and cattle.
The Author presently lives in Seville Grove, Western Australia with his wife Glenys.