The Country Jesus

Story's Crossing, a small country town where the train doesn't stop anymore, & the highway bypasses the town. Inner Urban Man, Traven, was raised here. The place that formed him, the place that nearly doomed him.

Traven knew he'd never return but a chance turn on a road to somewhere else, and here he is.

The old town looks the same as he steps down... yeah, right! No, something is rotten and Traven isn't looking for trouble but trouble has a mind of its own... Old love, old betrayal, and you can't go home again. Murder will out, brussel sprout. Yadda yadda...

Has Traven been case as the Small Town Hamlet? That is the Question... now read on...

Some comments on Colin's earlier novels:

Sweethearts: "one of the great forgotten masterpieces of Australian fiction" - Michael Wilding

Massive Road Trauma: "a subtle book, intellectually provocative..." - Westerley