Goat-Roping is the restraint method employed by the mafia to tie a hostage with both arms and legs behind his back so his body will fit neatly in the boot of a car. 'Goat Rope' is also the name of Peter Robb's stunning new novella, about the son of Italian migrants who grows up in Australia, but returns to Italy on leaving school. There, he is sucked into the mafia, and is sent back to Australia to assassinate a mafia informer who has taken refuge in Australia.
'Goat Rope' is a confronting, blackly comic novella that fully develops the darkness and violence that lurks in Robb's non-fiction books. Also in this volume are the novellas 'Final Cut' and 'Lime Juice', both of which Robb published under the pseudonym "B Selkie" some years ago.
