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The seedy side of the distant-water fishing industry
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A high-stakes crime novel that exposes the lawless world of distant-water industrial fishing and a modern-day slave trade where power rests in the hands of a merciless few. Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When...
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A high-stakes crime novel that exposes the lawless world of distant-water industrial fishing and a modern-day slave trade where power rests in the hands of a merciless few.
Paul Cutler is a former undercover operative, now working off the books for his handler, Malik Khalil. When Cutler is tasked with investigating the disappearance of an Australian marine scientist on a Taiwanese distant-water fishing vessel, he realises that the apparent murder he's investigating points to a slew of much darker crimes.
Onboard, Cutler discovers that the vessel's crew members are kept as slaves, subject to brutal punishment and forced to work long hours with little rest. And when he learns of the recent massacre of the crew of an Indonesian fishing vessel in the same waters, he realises his quest for the truth will be meaningless if he cannot escape with his life.
Based on real events, and years of research, this crime novel shines a light on the criminogenic nature of the distant-water fishing industry, and the human and environmental cost of its operations.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781760997854
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 September 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Fremantle Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 320
About the Author
David Whish-Wilson is the author of twelve novels and three creative non-fiction books. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. At eighteen, he left Australia to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, street seller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug-trial guinea pig. He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with his partner and three kids, and teaches creative writing at Curtin University.
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