Timo Savimaki is the fifth of seven children of migrants, raised in a Finnish enclave of sugar pioneers, thus emerging bilingual and duo cultural. This advantage weighs nothing but broadens the outlook. He graduated from the University of Queensland, and worked as an economist in Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. He took a sea change in 2000 and became a stonemason on the New South Wales coast for a decade until the body said enough. During this time he was an occasional writer for the Moruya Examiner. In Melbourne “retirement”, he has taken up writing, his first novel, A Nearly Murder, published in 2023.
Wilson, chief of the Australian Spy Agency, posts Tony Jones to Buenos Aires to investigate the funding of terrorists in South America. He mysteriously vanishes with an accomplice, an enigmatic ‘old lady’ Joan Davis. Together they expose, capture, or eliminate the extortionists, and belatedly in...