Bad Debts by Peter Temple
Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created. When Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client he's too deep in misery over his football team's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack knows, the ex-client's dead and he's been drawn into a life-threatening investigation involving high-level corruption, dark sexual secrets, shonky property deals, and murder. With hitmen after him, shady ex-policemen at every turn, and the body count rising, Jack needs to find out what's going on--and fast. The first novel in the iconic Jack Irish series, Bad Debts was first published in 1996 and won the Australia's crime writing prize, the Ned Kelly Award, for Best First Novel. Peter Temple went on to win Australia's highest literary honor, the Miles Franklin Award, in 2010 for Truth as well many other awards and accolades both in Australia and internationally.For nearly 30 years, Peter Temple has worked in or written about the finance business. He was trained as an economist and statistician and worked as a fund manager and analyst for 18 years until switching to full-time writing and journalism in 1988. Peter now writes for a number of publications, including the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle, Mail on Sunday, Analyst, and International Fund Management, on a freelance basis. He is the author of several books, including The Internet Investor and Getting Started in Shares. He is a diploma member of the Securities Institute, a former member of the London Stock Exchange, and an Associate of the Institute of Investment Management and Research. He has lived and worked in London since 1970.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781596921290 |
| ISBN 10 | 1596921293 |
| Title | Bad Debts |
| Author | Peter Temple |
| Series | Jack Irish |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | MacAdam/Cage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 318 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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