Find Me My Enemies & Cover Story by Michael Wilding- CHRISTMAS BOOK REVIEW
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For our second book in our 12 Days of Christmas series, we will be looking at Find Me My Enemies & Cover Story by Michael Wilding.
This is the latest in Michael Wilding’s crime fiction, and pretty soon into the work you’ll be up to your neck in alleged murder, political intrigue, dubious characters and lashings of paranoia in a highly literary, and hysterically funny, plot that will have you reaching for tissues for your eyes and pads for your panties.
Wilding is a master of his criminal craft.
The writer Plant is the ironic name of our detective-hero, and Fullalove is his conspiratorial contact, with a library full of paranoid literature and a head full of extravagant theories of persecution and surveillance.
The plot begins to ravel with the introduction of Slater, who engages Plant to find out why he, Slater, isn’t getting any literary grants from the government. Not long after this visit, Slater is found dead, having fallen (or was pushed) over the unsteady railing of the deck on his house at Scotland Island.
This takes Plant on a wild ride until, at the last, he solves the crime after many conversations and cogitations on the meaning of life, etc etc etc.
As Emeritus Professor in English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, Wilding has a distinguished academic history as a teacher and author, with a mightily impressive bibliography.
But his Plant novels are something else entirely!
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