Black Tide by Peter Temple

Black Tide by Peter Temple

Jack Irish 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.

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.