Shooting Star by Peter Temple
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.
Temple is the master of the complex plot and his characters leap from the page a taut action-packed thriller - Sunday Telegraph Temple ratchets up the tension in his inimitable style he remains one of the best thriller writers in the world - Sunday Express Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment - Evening Standard Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year - Mark Billingham
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 four Jack Irish novels and has also written four standalone novels: An Iron Rose (1998), Shooting Star (1999), In the Evil Day (2002) and The Broken Shore (2006), winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Fiction in 2007. He lives in Ballarat, Australia, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847247636 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847247636 |
| Title | Shooting Star |
| Author | Peter Temple |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2009-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing: Best Crime Novel 2000 |
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