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Black Tide
Jack Irish book 2
Series: Jack Irish Novels
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When an old friend of Jack's late father asks for his help, Jack's happy to oblige. But sometimes people go missing for good reason.
The award-winning second novel in the Melbourne crime series featuring Peter Temple's best loved character- Jack Irish-lawyer, gambler, part-time cabinetmaker, finder of missing people
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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, more deadly secrets.
Series: Jack Irish Novels
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Bad Debts
Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he’s still cooking for...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Black Tide
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...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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Peter Temple's Black Tide has been praised for its gritty depiction of Melbourne, featuring an alienated, macho anti-hero and a strong sense of place through its weather and Aussie Rules elements. Critics commend its fast-paced and compulsive nature, highlighting Temple's natural style and mastery of the crime thriller genre, with comparisons to Elmore Leonard. The book also marks a praised return for the character Jack Irish, combining thrilling narrative with humour and wit.
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ISBN: 9781925773309
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 December 2018
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Edition: 2nd edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Peter Temple is widely regarded as one of Australia’s finest writers, and his novels have been published in twenty countries. During his lifetime he worked extensively as a journalist and editor, before teaching editing and media studies at a number of universities. His novels, among them the Jack Irish series, Truth, The Broken Shore and An Iron Rose, are celebrated as some of the best crime writing in English.
Temple died in March 2018.
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An Iron Rose
The pain seemed to dissolve. Cold and rough tarmac against the face, chill wind down here at ground level, smell of French perfume on my shirt, delicious. I registered that but all I felt was sad. This is a stupid way to go, I thought. Careless. When Mac Faraday's best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac...Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Book Three
The third novel in the Jack Irish series won the 2000 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel and has earned its place as a modern Australian crime classic. Jack Irish—lawyer, gambler, and people-finder—is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find the missing barman...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Dead Point: Jack Irish, Tie-In
It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a champion horse put down. It's not surprising that Jack's mind is not fully on the job...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
White Dog: Jack Irish, Book Four
The fourth and final book in the iconic Jack Irish series, and the winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Jack Irish—gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found—has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap. Jack soon discovers there...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Bad Debts
Melbourne in winter. Rain. Wind. Pubs. Beer. Sex. Corruption. Murder. A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn’t ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: his beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long and he’s still cooking for...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
In the Evil Day
The Cold War is long dead, but the trade in deceit and lies is still running hot. In Hamburg, John Anselm is hiding from the ghosts he has left behind in foreign war zones. He spends his days working for a surveillance firm whose business is just this side of legal. At night, he drinks too much, paranoid about the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2900Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Shooting Star: Text Classics
Shooting Star is classic Peter Temple, and now a Text Classic. Pat Carson's old eyes were on me, looking for something. 'Man is born unto trouble,' he said. I said, 'As the sparks fly upwards.' Deep lines at the corners of his mouth. 'Know your Job. Soldier. Policeman. Haven't been a bloody priest too, have you?' Anne Carson—fifteen, beautiful, wayward....Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish
The unpublished, unfinished and unmissable writings of the unforgettable Peter Temple. Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Broken Shore
Joe Cashin was different once. He moved easily then; was surer and less thoughtful. But there are consequences when you've come so close to dying. For Cashin, they included a posting away from the world of Homicide to the quiet place on the coast where he grew up. Now all he has to do is play the country cop and...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Truth
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore. Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2900Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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