And we were going out to dinner that night with various members of family. I remember it vividly for a few reasons, one of which was because it was my birthday. It was the culmination of a week or so of unrelenting heat. I’d say almost all Victorians capable of it remember what they were doing on the day that came to be known as Black Saturday – the 7th of February, 2009. 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 this country, 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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