Deadly. Desperate. Despicable… They're just the boys next door. In the sun-scorched suburbs of Melbourne, two predators roam the streets. J.D. and Emilio are charming sociopaths with a taste for violence, chaos, and cheap port. When a teenage girl named Becky skips school to run away with her older boyfriend, their paths cross—and the bloodshed begins. What follows is a grim, unrelenting journey where civility is a mask and survival is the only rule. This audacious novelization by Sawyer Perry, based on the cult film Marauders by Mark Savage, captures a raw and unforgiving world where monsters look like ordinary men and innocence is just another casualty.