About This Book
The third millennium has dawned on the planet and virtue rocks on the cusp of extinction. The casually sneering savages will soon be in full control. All the sadists and sex slayers, deeply troubled troubleshooters, violent homophobes and thick tradies have become society's norm. A few good souls loiter, but the contrast is harrowing. The Innocence provides top-drawer access to the daring and the foolish, including Rachel and Shea, twelve-year-old West London schoolgirls off to sample the quarter pounders and MDMA at their local burger joint; Bruno, the war-criminal grasshopper who craves to see his mum; Andy, the prom-poised daughter of a famous mountain climber; and the Striker family, a boisterous clan that just wants to be left alone to holiday "someplace close and someplace warm." The Innocence uses interconnecting narratives, recurring characters and multiple points of view to propel readers on a journey that will have them chuckling as they reach for the sick bucket. Murder and mayhem prevail, while tumescent ego motivates the acts of psychopaths and lost wretches alike. The Innocence is a snapshot of a world that has lost its mind. Yet down this "long tunnel of dark, flaking brick," perhaps a glimmer of hope . . . Author Clayton Lachmund is a secondary school English teacher at an all-boys' private boarding school. Clayton was born in Sydney, raised in rural New South Wales, and completed his education in Brisbane. He is married, has three children and resides in Toowoomba, Queensland. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TheInnocence.html
