Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-
drugs madness of the suburban wetlands, lies Sydney's shadow history. Terrifying tsunamis,
corpse-robbing morgue staff, killer cops, neo-Nazis, power junkies and bumbling SWOS
teams electrify this epic tale of a city with a cold vacuum for a moral core. Birmingham drills
beneath the cover story of a successful multicultural metropolis and melts the boundaries
between past and present to reveal a ghost city beneath the surface of concrete and glass.
Combining intensive research with the pace of a techno-thriller, John Birmingham creates a
rich portrait of a city too dazzled by its own gorgeous reflection to care much for what lies at
its dark, corrupted heart. Illuminated by wild flashes of black humour, violent, ghoulish and
utterly compelling, Leviathan is history for the Tarantino generation.