GLENN ORGIAS
Pay your debts.
Protect your family.
Never cross a loan shark.
Vincent Silk is back in the decaying maw of Australia's Steel City after losing everything - his money, his self-respect, and his friends and family. He wants to make amends but has debts to an unhinged loan shark. With no way to make good, Vincent is forced into work as an enforcer, a Teeth Kicker, collecting debts.
Vincent is big and imposing, so he should be a natural at hunting down late-payers, but he hates the violence. Every collection tests his resolve, especially when his next target is Henrietta, the woman who saved him from an OD - and the someone he's in love with. Vincent wants to protect her, and he knows running isn't an option. The shark would come for their families, including Vincent's younger brother, Ray.
Vincent and Ray have a complicated past, scarred by a horrific car accident that left Ray an amputee. As Ray spirals into his own trouble, Vincent decides to take matters into his own hands and solve everyone's problems - until it all unravels, and he's left with an impossible choice between the two people he loves the most.
Unless, of course, he's willing to sacrifice himself to save them both.
A memoir of surfing, shark attack and survival
One twilight, Glenn Orgias was surfing at Bondi Beach when the worst happened: he was attacked by a shark, a 'man in a grey suit', as surfers call them; 80 meters from shore with a severed arm, losing blood fast, and the great white was somewhere below. All he could think about was his wife, Lisa, who was four months pregnant.
Man In A Grey Suit is a memoir of personal restoration, of rehabilitation, of overcoming anger and anxiety. It's the story of how surfing, the sport that almost killed him, helped Glenn turn his life around.
'This moving and utterly gripping true story is a testament to the bravery and guts that human beings can display when truly pushed to the brink.'
- Herald Sun
'It is while coming to terms with phantom pain after the loss of a limb that Orgias arrives at deep psychological insights...The methods he discovers to ease his untouchable pain are astonishing.'
- Daily Telegraph
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