Galaxy Motel

When your World is flipped upside down - who can YOU call?

Dial the trio from Firefly Electrics Co!

Meet the New Public Protectors today...

"Revenge Thriller. Social Realism. Side-splitting Comedy. This Crime Series Delivers in Spades". 

Artful avengers, dangerous subversives, lovely young men. Lennie, Joe, and their sharp-tongued cockatoo, Rawcus, have heard it all.

In Galaxy Motel, Book #3 in the Firefly Electrics Series of dark humour thrillers - Lennie, Joe, and their quick-witted cockatoo, Rawcus, are haunted by underworld rumours that have linked them to a fortune in cash, belonging to terrorists, which fell onto a city wharf during a cargo-loading accident.

When visitors carrying unusual tools, and wearing hardhats and sunglasses, knock on their front door, the trio needs to dance fast to avoid losing life or limb. They enlist the help of a blow-up doll named Mavis, a homemade electric chair, and the Galaxy Motel.

Meanwhile, their childhood friend, Pauline Gerrity, needs assistance to deal with a professional man who has a keen eye for underage girls who reside at Pauline's refuge for abused mothers and their children. They've dubbed the man Mr Teflon for good reason: he's a police force insider with a degree in psychology. Could a fantastic trip to a beach house help to rewire Mr T's soul and make the world safer?

One thing's for sure, Lennie, Joe, and Rawcus keep learning that the best-laid plans of cockatoos and men often go awry. Lennie is planning a seance to give the Scottish poet Robbie Burns an update on his fabled mice angle...

--- The Firefly Electrics fights crime in the shadows of the city; crime the establishment can't touch, won't touch, or gives a sly nod to. ---

Lennie calls it re-wiring society. Joe reckons they're simply fixing bad people. Rawcus, who grew up in a pub, just wants a cold beer after a hard day on the power grid.

Now they're wanted for Crimes against Crime.

"Underdog Justice Has Never Tasted So Sweet," says a client of Firefly Electrics, who wished to remain anonymous. "And They Never Sent Me A Bill!"

"These eccentric inner-city crusaders are a whole new adventure in crime capers...quirky and refreshingly wry." Tom Flood, Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's equivalent of the US Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the UK Booker Prize.

"Redolent of Lord Of The Flies and Of Mice And Men...A post-Zen Batman and Robin...Lennie and Joe, and their pet, Rawcus, configure a doctorate in elegant, fair-minded Gonzo retribution of the order of Pulp Fiction." Clare AK - Writers Victoria.

"I have been reading crime fiction from bestsellers to hidden gems for many years and I have never...NEVER read anything as imaginative and humorous in such a uniquely Australian larrikin voice as Mark Furness' work." Mark Doic, Goodreads.com...