Gillespie's Gold - Softcover

Probert, Terry L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0987407481 ISBN 13: 9780987407481

Publisher: Probert Consulting, 2019

Synopsis

Holding the Mint receipt up to the light, Joe scans it again searching for answers, but there is only one verse of a childish rhyme scrawled on the back. His father’s constant taunting him with it gave him nightmares as a kid and now, it’s again running an endless loop in his mind.
Why would Les have an assay receipt from the Perth Mint anyway? It looks genuine, and registered as mined by him in the Orroroo district, means the gold was his. So why wouldn’t the cranky old drunk just come out and tell him about it before he died, or was this just another of his dead father’s ways to keep niggling, taunting his only son for years after he’d gone. Besides, if there is a gold mine on Gillespie land, where is it now?
Forty years after burying a man he came to hate, Les’s last verse comes flashing back, bringing with it only the harsh memories of anger. No space for love, just a son’s memory of the hundreds of lashings that came from a liquor drenched tongue are now ringing in his ears. He thought he had put it all behind him. However, Les was taunting him again and finding his note now was making Joe hate him even more. What did the rhyme mean and why didn’t the old bastard say anything?
Believing there are riches to be had, someone is prepared to do whatever it takes to sieze them. Powerful and conniving, these people think nothing of bribing politicians or police and they will do everything they can to run Joe off his land. All they have to do is peel off the Gillespie’s topsoil and steal their gold from beneath it. That might be their plan, but Joe Gillespie isn’t one who gives in easily.
 

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About the Author

Acknowledged with a Commended in the 2013 Christina Stead Awards for his debut novel Kundela, a serendipitous moment allowed Terry L Probert to switch from a life in marketing to follow a dream to become a different kind of storyteller, a novelist. Low living in Melbourne, Terry spent most of his life in rural Australia working with tractors and machinery. Gillespie's Gold is set in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia where he was born.

Edition details

• Publisher: Probert Consulting
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0987407481
• ISBN 13: 9780987407481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 538
• Editor: Fawdry Merlene