Black Tide

Black Tide

by PeterTemple (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Published: 02 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 1847241646
ISBN 13: 9781847241641

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.