In 1986 Picasso’s Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria by a group calling itself the Australian Cultural Terrorists. The first two letters attributed to the Australian Cultural Terrorists in this novel were written by them (him? Her?) and published in The Age newspaper. The second two letters were written by me.

Weeping Woman was found in locker 227 at Spencer Street railway station. The identity of the Australian Cultural Terrorists remains unknown, but we almost certainly have them surrounded.