Set in contemporary Australia, The List is a novel about a team of counter-terrorist experts desperately trying to prevent a major disaster in Sydney… Surprisingly, given Brissenden’s journalistic background, one of the less likeable characters in the book is a pushy and untrustworthy journalist. Less surprisingly, one of his characters voices his dislike of ‘those frothing at the mouth, bloviating commercial radio shock jocks Sydney specialised in.’