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Paving the New Road

By Sulari Gentill
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Set against the darkening political backdrop of 1933 Europe, Paving the New Road follows Rowland Sinclair as he confronts the rise of fascism and the dangerous ambitions of Eric Campbell, Australia's would-be Fuhrer. Tasked with defending Australian democracy, Sinclair navigates a treacherous world of spies, murderers and tyrants, relying on unexpected allies—a poet, an artist and a bold sculptress—to challenge the creeping shadows of Nazism.
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It's 1933, and the political landscape of Europe is darkening. Eric Campbell, the man who would be Australia's Fuhrer, is on a fascist tour of the Continent, meeting dictators over cocktails and seeking allegiances in a common cause. Yet the Australian way of life is not undefended. Old enemies have united to undermine Campbell's ambitions. The clandestine armies of the Establishment have once again mobilised to thwart any friendship with the Third Reich.

But when their man in Munich is killed, desperate measures are necessary. Now Rowland Sinclair must travel to Germany to defend Australian democracy from the relentless march of Fascism. Amidst the goosestepping euphoria of a rising Nazi movement, Rowland encounters those who will change the course of history. In a world of spies, murderers and despotic madmen, he can trust no-one but an artist, a poet and a brazen sculptress.

Paving the New Road unravels as plots thicken, loyalties are tested and bedfellows become strange indeed.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781921997334

Publisher: Pantera Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 December 2013

Country: Australia

Imprint: Pantera Press

Illustration: Text only

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 371g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

Award-winning author Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write. She grows French black truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals. Sulari is author of award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of historical crime fiction novels set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum- amateur-detective.

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