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MAN IN THE CORNER Nathan Besser

Vintage $32.99 DAVID’S wife confesses she used to be a prostitute, but that’s OK. Wife Leah tells him of her brief time as a Sydney sex worker – “146 Miller Street, Pyrmont. Sydney’s Finest Girls’’. But then she became a singer, David’s wife and a mum. David gets a headache, and from there learns he has a rare brain disease. Again, the attitude is “such is life’’ – and then he meets the suave Ben and sells him his business, which then leads to a fraud involving identity theft and from there, a complex existence that should make all of us in the real world wary of just how safe we are. For a debut novel, this is an excellent read and promises plenty ahead as Nathan Besser’s writing career takes off. The book is already earmarked for great things, with The Mentalist star Simon Baker and his partner Rebecca Rigg jumping on board to take it to Hollywood.