Tout autour de l'alcool un très veau thriller. ( )

McGahan started his career with "Praise", a book about a young unemployed man and his girlfriend who drink too much and take too much drugs. By "Last Drinks" he'd moved on but still there were common elements.

"Last Drinks" takes in the real life fall of the National Party from power in Queensland after decades in power and rising corruption. Mixed in with this is the narrator George, a journalist who becomes entangled in the corruption before he does a runner to a Queensland border town where he writes for the local paper. George's old friend Charlie turns up dead and George tries to find out why.

I didn't enjoy this as much as his previous works (the aforementioned "Praise" and "1988") but there are enough twists and turns to keep the reader interested. ( )