“No one wants to become a refugee. No one should have to endure this humiliating and arduous ordeal. Yet, millions do. Even one refugee forced to flee, one refugee forced to return to danger is one too many.”
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moonMessage for World Refugee Day 2011

Friday, 27 April 2012

Political thriller

Prohibited zone / Alastair Sarre.  Adelaide, SA :  Wakefield Press, 2011
Set in the desert of the Woomera Prohibited Area, suburban Adelaide and the Fleurieu  Peninsula, this political thriller, maintains intrigue and pace  throughout. In the dark days that followed 9/11, the hardest thing was sorting the good guys from the bad. In Australia they got it wrong. Saira Abdiani and her friend, Amir Ali Khan, are Afghan refugees with a violent past. When Saira and Amir both disappear from the Woomera Refugee Detention Centre, the cops, the secret service and a ragtag gang of vigilantes are all on the trail. Steve West is a former football hero turned mining engineer who just wants a dirty weekend in town. He ends up seeing the dirty side of the War on Terror.

Alastair Sarre’s ear for dialogue, eye for place and character, and deft skill in pitting historical and political viewpoints against each other, make Prohibited Zone an excellent, provocative read.

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