![]() The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species – understanding its abuse will define our future.Ī powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper’s trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers. It is also the story of fire in Australia, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element. ![]() The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn’t know. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. ![]() On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. ![]()
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