Scarred is not for the squeamish. A poignant debut about serial killers on the streets of Sydney, it explores the addictiveness of vengeance and the tragic mistakes made by the misguided.
Damien Linnane was born in Sydney, Australia. After working a disparaging collection of jobs following high-school, he spent over five years in the Australian army as a combat medic while completing a degree majoring in psychology. In 2015, at the age of 29, he was sentenced to two-years imprisonment for a series of crimes, including the firebombing of a home, with the sentencing magistrate finding that his motivation appeared to be 'vigilante action'. Scarred was written while he was in custody. Since his release from prison, Linnane has started a business, Vigilante Studios, doing photorealistic portrait drawings by commission, and has completed a master's degree in information studies. He also works as a ghostwriter and is a contributor to the news website 10 daily.
