Jacko: The Great Intruder

Thomas Keneally

Aug 2016 · Open Road Media

About this eBook

Jacko Emptor is New York’s most infamous TV celebrity and most public trespasser. An affable Aussie, Jacko can talk his way on-camera into the homes of any ordinary American. Jacko soon finds himself hosting a televised hunt for a veteran’s missing daughter. What he unveils has the power to both make and break his career. How far will he go before even he can’t deny that some things should be left off camera?

About the author

Thomas Keneally is the celebrated writer of Shindler’s Ark, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1982 and was later made into the Steven Spielberg–Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List. He has written over thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as plays and essays. He won the Miles Franklin Award consecutively for his novels Bring Larks and Heroes (1967) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968). The People’s Train was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, South East Asia division. His most recent novels are The Daughters Of Mars, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2013, and Shame and the Captives. His non-fiction includes the memoirs Homebush Boy and Searching For Schindler; Three Famines, an LA Times Book of the Year; and the histories The Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame, American Scoundrel and the three volume series Australians. Keneally was born in 1935 in New South Wales and now lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters.