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Shooting Star
Peter Temple
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Description for Shooting Star
Paperback. A race for life as a girl's kidnapping reveals her family's tainted past and a disreputable ex-police negotiator becomes her only hope for survival. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 236.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
240g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857383518
SKU
V9780857383518
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About Peter Temple
Peter Temple was born in South Africa in 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 1980. He published nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels were published in over twenty countries. The Broken Shore won the UK's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for ... Read more
Reviews for Shooting Star
'Plenty of surprises ... Shooting Star hits all the right buttons' Evening Standard.
Evening Standard
'One of the best thriller writers in the world' Sunday Express.
Sunday Express
'Put simply, Temple is a master' John Harvey.
John Harvey
Evening Standard
'One of the best thriller writers in the world' Sunday Express.
Sunday Express
'Put simply, Temple is a master' John Harvey.
John Harvey