Rules of backyard cricket. Jock Serong. 2016.

Darren Keefe and his older brother, sons of a fierce, gutsy single mother. The endless glow of summer, the bottomless fury of contest. All the love and hatred in two small bodies poured into the rules of a made-up game.

A boy with a freakish talent, Darren becomes a man with almost no sense of consequence. An Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety - one of those men who gets away with things.

Until the day we meet him, middle-aged, in the boot of a car. Gagged, cable-tied, a bullet in his knee. Everything pointing towards a shallow grave.