abstract:The Bear Pit is a 2000 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was the seventeenth book featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone and involves the assassination of the State Premier by a sniper in the lead up to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
But Johnson said the decision to hand the captaincy to the experienced Tindall was not influenced by the bear-pit atmosphere expected at the world-renowned Millennium Stadium.