{"product_id":"2940152427950","title":"A Green Light: Book 1: The Kingdom of Children","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Book 1 of A GREEN LIGHT: THE KINGDOM OF CHILDREN crime writer, playwright and screenwriter, Ray Mooney, masterfully explores the development of an ordinary boy into a cold-blooded killer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohnny Morgan is born into a suburban working class catholic family where he matures, on the one hand, within the strict regime of Catholicism and on the other, within a knockabout world where brute force and cunning are the preferred means of dealing with authority and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a value system of never dob anyone in, a misunderstanding and arrogance of sexual knowledge, and a yearning to be thought of as the best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan discovers there is a natural order of balance within society, and that forces of disorder, such as himself, are soon brought to task; that certain individuals are given an unofficial green light to have their way with him. He learns he can withdraw their green light by disrupting the natural order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan excels in street-wise cunning, a larrikin delinquent, torn between the feral and the ordinary human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is based on the author’s personal experiences, and those of his close friend, Chris Flannery, aka Mr Rent-A-Kill, Australia’s infamous hitman, missing, believed murdered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Kingdom of Children is approximately 58,000 words and is specifically formatted for Kindle, with an interactive table of contents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series has been developed from Mooney’s highly successful book, A Green Light, published by Penguin, Australia, in 1988, which became Penguin’s second biggest fiction seller for that year and established an industry of crime fiction within Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Ray Mooney’s crime thriller A GREEN LIGHT.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Mooney’s A Green Light, the most powerful crime fiction book I’ve ever read. – Alex Miller, Booktopiablog 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This is the most important and powerful book on crime ever written in Australia, if not anywhere.’ -- Barry Webster, Pulp Fiction, 3RRR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mooney’s handling of underworld dialogue is masterful...What we have in Johnny Morgan is an absorbing character study of one of the most unpleasant sides of modern-day society.’ -- Ian Freckleton, the Age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A novel with the ferocious veracity of A GREEN LIGHT should make us all stop and think, and think again, about the patterns of power in our society’ -- Professor Stephen Knight, Sydney Morning Herald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘If the book stimulates one to think about crime, as it did for me, then it goes some of the way to meeting a higher goal. In the context of crime and prison literatuire I think A GREEN LIGHT is a valuable contribution.’ -- Michael Bersten, Lawyer, Legal Service Bulletin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Jocelynne Scutt wrote, ‘...for those of us who care about changing the mindless world of men, A Green Light is compulsory reading.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRay Mooney is a specialist in crime, regarded by many as Australia’s best fiction crime writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe’s written more than 20 plays specialising in crime, numerous films scripts, including the cult film, Everynight Everynight, co-authored with director Alkinos Tsilimidos and nominated for an AFI writing award. The film received numerous awards throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis non-fiction book, A Pack of Bloody Animals, about the Walsh Street murders, set the cat among the pigeons, with its sensational revelations within police and criminal cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe taught novel writing at tertiary institutions for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Green Light: Book 1 - The Kingdom of Children is approximately 58,000 words and is specifically formatted for Kindle, with an interactive table of contents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ray Mooney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069720477936,"sku":"2940152427950","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152427950_p0.jpg?v=1764020604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152427950","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}