An anxious sighting marks the re-appearance of high-school friend Jason Bunt in Mike Planner's ordered life as a courtroom sound-recordist. Mike is a cool obsessive - an avid spectator of criminal trials and a connoisseur of restrooms, both public and domestic. A lighthouse-related disaster in Year Ten has left him with a debt to Jason. Jason has meanwhile taken up tennis with evangelical zeal, and Mike seizes on this in an ill-advised attempt to wipe the slate clean. Further complications arise when Mike's Bible-reading co-worker Fiona introduces him to the Old Testament, and he grapples with questions of guilt, redemption, the Patriarch Abraham, and former Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras. 'Fear of Tennis' - a novel about the impossibility of avoiding sport.