Black Tide by Peter Temple
In the late autumn, down windy streets raining yellow oak and elm leaves, I went to George Armit's funeral. It was a small affair. Almost everyone George had known was dead. Many of them were dead because George had had them killed...' Jack Irish however, has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall. So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason. As Jack begins to dig, he discovers that Gary Connors was a man with something to hide. And his friends are people with darker and more deadly secrets.
Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year - Mark Billingham Temple's prose is polished and slick, his dialogue spot-on and his sense of place entrenched firmly in contemporary Australia - Sun-Herald Characterisation, dialogue and the quality of the prose are all top-class - Sunday Telegraph
Five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He is the author of three other Jack Irish novels: Bad Debts (1996), Dead Point (2000) and White Dog (2003). He has also written four standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999) In the Evil Day (2002) and The Broken Shore (2005). He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847241641 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847241646 |
| Title | Black Tide |
| Author | Peter Temple |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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