Penguin Books Australia

Paul is trying to escape. He's trying to escape from an Italian heritage that just doesn't seem to have relevance for him any more, and he's trying to escape from his nonno. They come from two different worlds, he and his grandfather, and Paul is more interested in his own world – his friends, the girls, the fast cars, the go-carts – than Nonno's strange and embarrassing behaviour.

Nonno...

Ape stepped up toe to toe with Falco. Brad stepped in, but Falco gently pushed him aside. Brad hadn't seen what Falco had seen in Ape's eyes the night before.

Welcome to bunkhouse five – it's a scene of power struggles, hidden agendas and psychodramas.

There's Brad with the troubled past, and fat, harmless Mountain-Man Singh.