title: Jamaica (novel)
text: # Jamaica (novel)
  
  Jamaica : A Novel (2007) is a novel by Australian author Malcolm Knox. It won the Colin Roderick Award in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Fiction category of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  A group of six Australian friends - five white, middle-aged males and one female - combine to compete in a marathon relay swim in treacherous waters off Jamaica. But even before the race begins fractures appear in the relationships, with drug-taking, hidden secrets and personal crises coming to dominate.
  
  