Winner IP Picks Best Fiction
2005.
Carlos Wildon, Manon Chouan and Sophie Dune are missing. The only clue as
to their disappearances is a book called A Ticket
For Perpetual Locomotion, by Mexican Eduardo Maranda.
Unbeknownst to Eduardo, his scheming agent and family have turned his book
into a reality, leading impressionable
young adults into traveling around the world with a ticket for perpetual
locomotion. The catch of the ticket is that the holder must only move in
a forward direction, and must sever all contact with family and friends.
On the trail of the missing is Allan Bates, alias Detective Sergeant Richard
Stone.
Also drawn into the search are the victim’s families who are much more
closely related than they originally thought.
After nine years overseas, Geoffrey Gates
returned to Australia in 2003. He spent his time abroad teaching English
in England and Germany, also traveling to Mexico, the Middle East and Europe.
In Germany,
Geoffrey was also a member of the Hamburg
writers’ group ‘Work
In Progress’.
Geoffrey now teaches at The Hills Grammar School in
Sydney, where he runs a creative writing group for students. Although A
Ticket for Perpetual Locomotion is his first novel, his short stories
have been published in Gangway, Verandah,
Dotlit, Skive and UQ Vanguard.
