| Amaze Your Friends | |
| Author: | Peter Doyle |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime novel |
| Publisher: | Random House, Melbourne |
| Release Date: | 1998 |
| Media Type: | Print Paperback |
| Pages: | 250 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-09-183656-5 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, paperback) |
| Oclc: | 38833698 |
| Preceded By: | Get Rich Quick |
| Followed By: | The Devil's Jump |
Amaze Your Friends is a 1998 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Doyle.[1]
This is book 2 in the author's Billy Glasheen series of novels.[2]
Set in Sydney in the 1950s this novel follows Billy Glasheen as he attempts to raise ten thousand pounds to pay off a corrupt police officer. If he can't make that in six months he'll find himself six feet under.
Damo Gay, writing on the Australian Crime Fiction HQ website noted: "Amaze Your Friends is a dark hardboiled crime story that will take a man and subject him to all manner of adversity. It's set in Sydney as the 1950s are drawing to a close, following the attempts of a small-time hustler to come up with some money as quickly as possible. It's a wild and unpredictable ride through the low-life haunts of the city's drug-dens, dealing with corrupt cops while trying to maintain a string of dodgy mail-order scams...At times it's crude and at others it's graphic, but it's most definitely an entertaining read."[3]