Murray Whelan should have been in bed. Not loitering among the truckies at the fruit and vegetable market. Not picking fights with a gun-toting kid. Not tasting forbidden fruit in the back of Donny Maitland's rig. But what's a lonely political minder to do? His son Red has disappeared, and his boss Angelo Agnelli has sent him on a mission to infiltrate the toughest union in the country. With an election looming the triumphantly futile hero of Shane Maloney's acclaimed thrillers is crunching the numbers once again.
