![]() Her acclaimed first novel Plains of Promise was published in 1997 by University of Queensland Press and was shortlisted in the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and the NSW Premier's Awards. It offers an intimate awareness of the realities facing Aboriginal people the energy and humour in her writing finds hope in the bleakest situations and the remarkable combination of storytelling elements, drawn from myth and legend and fairy tale, has Oblivia Ethylene in the company of amazing characters like Aunty Bella Donna of the Champions, the Harbour Master, Big Red and the Mechanic, a talking monkey called Rigoletto, three genies with doctorates, and throughout, the guiding presence of swans.Īlexis Wright is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. The Swan Book has all the qualities which made Wright’s previous novel, Carpentaria, a prize-winning best-seller. It follows the life of a mute young woman called Oblivia, the victim of gang-rape by petrol-sniffing youths, from the displaced community where she lives in a hulk, in a swamp filled with rusting boats, and thousands of black swans, to her marriage to Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia, and her elevation to the position of First Lady, confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. But as Allender quietly investigates, he makes a shocking discovery that will upend the entire American intelligence apparatus.The Swan Book is set in the future, with Aboriginals still living under the Intervention in the north, in an environment fundamentally altered by climate change. ![]() Now, Wallace's mysterious death suggests that the CIA itself has been compromised and that China has someone inside the Agency. Wallace had severely damaged Chinas Washington spy ring with a devastating ruse, a so-called black swan, in which a deep-undercover female agent targeted and destroyed a key Chinese official. A behind-the-scenes operator at the CIA, Wallace was integral to the Agency's secret war against Chinas national intelligence service, which infiltrates government and military offices, major businesses, and systems crucial to our security. Deutermann's Red Swan is a brilliant, provocative thriller about the contemporary war that no one sees, but which will shape the future of America and China.Set in contemporary Washington D.C., Red Swan begins with an ominous phone call from Carson McGill, the Deputy Director of Operations in the CIA, to retired CIA officer Preston Allender. Written with the authority of twenty-six years of military and government service at sea and in Washington, P.T. For Wallace's black swan operation may have been turned against the CIA a Red Swan is flying and the question is: who is she, what is her target, and where will she land? But as Allender quietly investigates, he makes a shocking discovery that will upend the entire American intelligence apparatus. ![]()
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