The journalist’s second novel, after Out of the Silence, commissioned by and serialised in The Argus in 1938, deals with an invasion of Western Australia by a predatory power to the North and begins postmodernly with a prologue written by two academics in Canberra in 1975 confirming the veracity of the manuscript that you’re about to read. The publisher’s approach on the verso of the half-title was not as subtle: 'Shells in Sydney, Massacre in Melbourne, a thrilling novel that may forecast the future'
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