Author(s): Wayne Grogan

General

Winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for the Best First Book of Crime Writing. 'Junkie Pilgrim' is a raw tale of addiction and murder in Sydney's dockyards. "To call this fiction does it disservice. It has hard earned truth stamped all over it. Rather than prose, I saw this book as a poem to self-destruction. It is elegantly written and never pulls back from that which can be unpalatable. A must read." (Ned Kelly Award Judge) "A major addition to Australian crime fiction" (The Bulletin) "An astonishing portrayal of criminality in the metropolis beautifully written." (Sydney Morning Herald) "Grogan delivers fistfuls of literary punch." (Weekend Australian)