A Fly Under the Radar

Longlisted for Best Novel - 2025 Ngaio Marsh Awards

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The story evolves. Fatman is in a spot of bother over cocaine dealing, Stilton is in a spot of bother trying to get his client out of a tricky position, Grasshopper is hanging on to the wildest ride of her life. 

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Karen Chisholm, AustCrimeFiction.org

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A Fly Under the Radar is a ripping yarn. It’s cantankerous and unexpected, with an eccentric cast that includes a millennial side-kick, a conniving landlord, a dangerous accountant, and starring a misanthropic grump who unwillingly becomes a criminal mastermind. This book is bitingly funny, and astonishingly clever, like if Jack Reacher had a sense of irony.

 

Alie Benge, writer

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If Larry David and Alan Shore (Boston Legal) had a love child, moved to New Zealand and stumbled onto a criminal conspiracy … he might look a little like Van Stilton, the grumpy but lovable lawyer at the centre of this entertaining debut novel. In A Fly Under the Radar McCartney manages to wrap a ripping yarn around a series of ironic, wry observations in a hilarious romp, that will have you laughing out loud and standing by for Van’s next adventure.

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Leanne Pooley, documentary film maker

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