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Fergus Hynes grew up in Ireland and worked in England, Canada, and the United States before settling in Australia. His diverse career has spanned business, politics, and the pursuit of social justice through prison reform."Fergus Hynes has written an evocative memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s and 50s in a small family pub in Dublin. You can almost smell the smoke and taste the Guinness in the bar. It was the beating heart of Irish life at the time, and his account is alive with the characters he saw across the counter. Fergus brings the keenness of observation that Dublin developed in him to England, Canada, the USA, Israel, PNG, and Australia." BARRY OAKLEY, novelist, playwright and former Literary Editor of The Australian newspaper.After settling in Australia, Fergus married Alison. They raised a family of four children. Fergus served for sixteen years as an Official Visitor to prisons in Australia."If variety is the spice of life Fergus Hynes has savoured it in abundance. His chosen profession empowered him to follow his whims and desires wherever they led. And lead him they did - to positions in cities and places across the globe. No wonder he has an interesting story to tell." THE HON. BOB ELLICOTT, AC, KC, Australian barrister, politician, and judge.JACINTA, mother: "I first encountered Fergus when his open letter, offering comfort to a man spending Christmas in a jail cell, was published in a prominent newspaper. Fergus was also serving up a gentle provocation to those of us free to celebrate, a reminder of the pain imposed by a cruel 'justice' system. Fergus' letter pressed upon my heart. I had an 18-year-old spending Christmas in jail."In the opening to Half a Loaf and a Thrupenny Bit - Dubliners, Politicians and Prisoners and Everyone In Between, Fergus recounts a conversation in prison:"What prepared you for ending up in prisons listening to men and women?" asked inmate Bill, as we sat in a drab green coloured wing that looked and smelt like a school gym.We were oblivious to the noise of the other inmates playing billiards, table tennis, exercising and boxing, while ear splitting what passes-for-music pulsated from radios.After sixteen years I was relinquishing my role as an Official Visitor to allow me to publicly advocate for the reform of sentencing and imprisonment.What indeed prepared me?

When Society throws you to the wolves - who can YOU call?Dial the trio from the Firefly Electrics Company.Meet the electricians who re-wire Society today in these crime-noir thrillers with a dark humour twist.Dark angels, dangerous subversives, lovely young men. Lennie and Joe, abetted by their sharp-tongued cockatoo Rawcus, have heard it all.Electricians by day, they fight crime in the shadows of the city; crime the Establishment can't touch - or is part of!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.In Justice Machine, Lennie and Joe thank their lucky stars when they are fishing at dawn on a city wharf and a small fortune falls from the sky into their laps during a cargo-loading accident. They escape without being ID'd, and know exactly how to distribute the windfall.But they've triggered a manhunt that threatens to blow their world apart...When Lennie's ex-parole officer, Trixi Talaveda, drops into their home for a chat about the missing cash, accompanied by a pair of human bulls called the Enoka brothers, life becomes trickier than ever.Will this new peril derail their plans to re-educate a "trusted financial adviser" who persuaded Lennie's beloved Aunty Doreen that money really did "grow on trees" - and drove her to the grave?Might a sea voyage with Aunty D's tormentor aboard their little yacht, Flamingo Sky, solve all their problems? Or might it all end in disaster?In Justice Machine, as Lennie explains to their reluctant shipmate: "A machine isn't only a bunch of nuts and bolts...it's a word for a process that transforms things.""These eccentric inner-city Sydney crusaders, created by crime suspense master Mark Furness, are a whole new adventure in crime capers and my favourite series of the year...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 Allan-Kamil, 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 Droic, Goodreads.