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Extract: Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown The debut book from beloved Australian actor Bryan Brown, Sweet Jimmy, represents a startling new voice in Australian crime fiction. Here we present an extract in lieu of Brown’s appearance at the cancelled 2021 Byron Writers Festival. Boys will be killers. It was a gentle knock. Agnes had been waiting for it. Hoping he would be on time. Such a lovely fella she thought. That’s why the kettle was on, with a freshly baked sponge cake on the table. ‘Feed the man meat’ was a silly expression. Where did it come from?
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Who knew? Should be ‘Feed the man cake’.
third was an older cousin, Phil. By five years.
He’d have time for that before he began.
They were Eastern Suburbs boys. Coogee.
Agnes beamed as she opened the door to him: ‘So punctual.’
It was the midseventies and, even though The Beatles had elbowed The Beach Boys off the charts, the beach was still the place to be.
He smiled. ‘Come on through. Got a surprise for you,’ she said. He had one for her too. There were three of them. Two were brothers, Johnny and Jimmy. The
But not for Johnny, Jimmy and Phil. They didn’t surf. They thieved.
