A rambunctious, rollicking novel of Sydney excess, which charts the rise and fall of a young tycoon.
Set in the boardrooms, yachts and water from mansions of Australia's most decadent city, 'The Butcherbird' is a boisterous thriller about corruption and excess in the corporate world.
Jack Beaumont, architect turned property developer, is as surprised as the next person when he is approached by insurance tycoon Mac Biddulph to become the new CEO of HOA, the largest home-insurer in Australia. Seduced at first by the lure of power, Jack soon finds that beneath the glamorous facade of the Sydney business elite lies a convoluted network of corruption. Out of his depth and pursued by piranhas in a fish tank full of money, Jack must unravel the elusive threads or become ensnared himself.
Geoffrey Cousins has called upon his own insider experience at the highest levels of Australian business to conjure a darkly comic suspense-filled tale of intrigue peopled by a tantalisingly familiar cast of A-list sharks.
