Holy Water

Henry Tuhoe works for a multinational conglomerate that’s begun to outsource everything it can to third world countries. His beautiful wife no longer lets him touch her, even though she demanded he get a vasectomy; and his bright new home in the leafy suburbs comes with a crippling mortgage. Life doesn’t seem so sweet any more. Then Henry’s boss offers him a choice: lose his job or go to the tiny, magical, about-to-be-globalised Kingdom of Galado to set up the back office (aka call centre) for a boutique bottled-water company the conglomerate has just acquired. Henry takes the job. In Galado, he muses on the life he left behind and deals with the attentions of a steroid-abusing monarch, a maverick Australian mercenary and a woman intent on redeeming both his soul and her country. Henry also learns how hard it can be to find one’s place in this world.