RaveThe Sydney Morning Herald (AUS)What drives people to light bushfires? Spite? Revenge? Psychosis? A fierce need by the luckless and downtrodden to control events for once? Maybe an urge to initiate something elemental and – in this country – even mythical? We might never know the mind of a firebug. But as Australia faces increasingly warm summers in a changing climate, Chloe Hooper attempted to find out ... The Arsonist, by turns a fascinating real-life thriller, police procedural, intense sociological study and the long-overdue story of fire in Australia ... In Hooper\'s sure hands the grimmest details become exquisite imagery.
