Poetic Licence

Art Lazaar is a writer with a past he can't escape. Mysteriously contracted to an unknown government agency while doubling as an academic, he feels the chill of a different evil crawling around his belly in the week an election is announced. He receives a call from an enigmatic homeless man connected to that same past, and is asked to protect a young asylum seeker running from those who murdered her brother. It's not a request he can refuse. His only way forward is to hunt down the killers.

As the situation escalates, Lazaar is threatened with arrest, kidnapped, tortured and left for dead in the street, while the suspects disappear, die, or leave the country in the nick of time until he is left with no choice, a buried truth, and the only weapon in his arsenal...