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Metzenthen, David. Available Online. Check Out Hoopla. More Info Check Out Hoopla. Read Description. Get the jet! What could go wrong when cautious, scientific, singlet-wearing George Parker and reckless rich-kid Chase Landon-Bond take off on a global rescue mission? Just about everything!

Metzenthen's carefully honed writing style is combined with an ability to capture moments of his characters' lives with deeply-felt and evocative insight. He is a masterful writer of fiction for older readers and has published eighteen novels, one award-winning picturebook, and numerous works for younger readers including titles in Penguin's Aussie Nibbles, Aussie Bites, and Aussie Chomps series. His works often deal with sport, and he is particularly finely attuned to exploring young male emotions.

Both his father and grandfather served in the Australian Defence Forces, fostering his great interest in the role Australians have played in armed conflict. Dreaming the Enemy is about the Vietnam War:. I wanted strongly to present something of what young Australians went through in this war, at the orders of their Government, and the great toll it took on them, their families, friends, and futures I hope to have shown what happens to people, that what we do or is done to us, stays with us for a long time and must be met with compassion and understanding.

The idea that I could do this through my work is a humbling and beautiful aspect of what it means to write. It also confers a responsibility on me to give my utmost to the novel, with the aim of giving to others something worth reading and thinking about.

Metzenthen enjoys surfing and fly-fishing and is a keen environmentalist; the natural world is where he likes to spend his time. Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. Tigerfish From best-selling and award-winning author David Metzen Danger Wave Reprint.

No creasing, pages tanned Reprint. David Metzenthen Edit Profile writer David Metzenthen is an Australian writer for children and young adults who was born in Melbourne, Victoria in More photos.

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