How to find someone in Australia?
Ok, this may be one of the stranger requests here, but I'll toss it out anyway.
Googling my own name a little while ago to see what came up I discovered that "I" was a character in a book, self-published in 2009. The author is Irish-Australian, but the book is set in Norway and he's apparently visited Norway quite a bit.
The name could just be picked out of the phone book at random, but since there are only 5 people in Norway with my combination of first name and surname I'm pretty curious as to why he picked it, and if I (or any of my name sisters) had actually met him at some point. Part of this is because this book is set in places I've been, in the mountains, and it's a sci-fi book which is a genre my whole family read a lot of. So it wouldn't be that surprising if he'd met either me or my parents, talked about sci-fi and picked the name after that.
But googling him I find a few tweets and a bit of his writing from 2009, but after that - nothing. He seems to have vanished and the email on his web page doesn't work. He looked like he was in his sixties, so it is possible that he's ill or has died, I guess.
I don't want to sound like a stalker, but now that I'm actually reading the book I'm getting more and more curious. So how would you go about finding a complete stranger, last known to be living in Australia?
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