
Deirdre Makepeace stirred and, half-awake, felt a body next to her.
She groaned. What had she got herself into last night? Someone else in her bed. How could that be?
She touched his back. It was cold. It felt wet. There was blood on it.
He was a complete stranger.
So commences this gripping crime novel. The mafia are trying to track down $1 billion stolen using special computer code written for a bank at the time of the Millennium Bug on 1 January 2000.
Detective Inspector John "Winner" Nguyen has his work cut out for him, including visits to New York and Los Angeles, as he tries to discover who the dead man is, how he ended up in Deirdre's bed, and who killed him.
Rob Gerrand's books include Transmutations, Fortress and The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection.
"I read it in one day (unusual for me), and it completely absorbed me ... a tight, well-plotted mystery. If only every author of a mystery novel could find a way of starting their book with a similar 'get you in' ... it grabbed my attention as much as any Ellery Queen or Mickey Spillane!" - Bob Sessions
5.0 out of 5 stars The Millennium Job is a terrific read. The plot is not only engaging but also creative. It features some unexpected twists and the odd MacGuffin skillfully deployed. The central proposition - what might happen to rounded up cents when the millennium bug was fixed - provides a fascinating underpinning to the story. The characters are believable; the Melbourne setting is captured exceptionally well and the plot....well I'm not going to comment on the plot for fear of a spoiler - but it provides a surprising and original take on the murder mystery genre. - Noel Turnbull