The Devil's Grip: A True Story of Shame, Sheep and Shotguns by Neal Drinnan with Bob Perry

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with all external stickers removed. Date due slip on inside front cover. Book is clean and binding intact.

Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks, a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody and inglorious end.

No one could have anticipated the orgy of violence that wiped out three generations of the Wettenhall family, much less the lurid scandals about Darcy Wettenhall, the man behind the world-famous Stanbury sheep stud, that would emerge from the aftermath.

Almost three decades later, the web of secrets and lies that led to this bizarre and seemingly motiveless murder spree is unravelled with the help of Bob Perry, Darcy Wettenhall's secret lover, for a decade before his murder.

From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District's prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil's Grip is a courageous and thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of reputation, the folly of deception and the power of shame. (back cover)