Bolas buysRead Bolas Buys on Goodreads
Category: Satirical Fiction
Published: April 5, 2019
362 pages
Language: Australian English
ISBN: 9780463507162
Tags: business crime, ghost fiction
The work of fiction
Knock the stuffing out of youMartin is a rich and ruthless Perth entrepreneur, who dies while celebrating with his admiring friends after making a load of money from a takeover bid. His opinions are so self-absorbed, only avid supporters of George Pell, Donald Trump, and bolas spiders are likely to agree with him.
He has a heart attack. Despite his prominence in life, Death dismisses him, he becomes caught between the living world. He can only exist in people’s thoughts of him and the void, which he describes as vast, empty and populated with apparitions and reject ghosts. This forces him to face a different view of the world.
He’s
shocked to find that thoughts of him are rare amongst the admiring friends. He
ends up in the thoughts of people who didn’t praise him much when he was alive.
In his
will, he gave a brewery to his girlfriend, Cleo. This brewery is where he had
hidden the paper trails that documented his shady deals, which he calls Bolas
Buys.
Boudicca sets off to defeat the RomansAs artful
as an orb-weaving spider, Cleo puts the people at the Brewery in their place,
which, as Sir Martin planned, is effective in keeping the sharks that are
circling his family’s wealth at bay.
Despite this success, his daughter, Bodie joins with people in the Brewery to try to undermine Cleo and her Machiavellian ways.
To stop
their misplaced idealism putting his fortune at risk, Sir Martin dangles his
opinions into people’s consciousness, as if he is a bolas spider.
In the
end, his affection for Boadie and his determination to look after her, shows he
is not as ruthless as he makes out … But close.
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