PETER TEMPLE

Anne Carson - fifteen, beautiful, and wayward - is 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.

Peter Temple moves into the territory of Tom Wolfe´s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Philip Roth´s American Pastoral with a masterpiece of modern fiction.

Depuis le fiasco de sa dernière affaire, Joe Cashin n''est plus le même homme. Avant, il se déplaçait avec aisance, ses gestes étaient plus sûrs, moins réfléchis. Mais on ne frôle pas la mort sans sé

Sarah Longmore''s apartment was in Kensington, on the rough edge, near the Dynon railyards in a cracked and potholed dead-end street with unpaved verges, weeds battling to survive. Just before a six-metre corrugated iron wall, I turned into a small cinder yard. A yellow Ford ute, better days seen, had its blistered nose to a building - partly brick, partly cinder-block, partly rusted tin. I parked the Lark next to the ute, switched off the wipers, sat listening to the engine note. 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 going down for murder. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about Mickey Franklin''s death, and between the case and his own dealings with dodgy racehorses, falls headlong into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks.

Peter Temple, geboren 1946 in Sudafrika, war Journalist, bevor er anfing Bucher zu schreiben. Er veroffentlichte bislang acht Romane und gehort zu den herausragenden australischen Autoren seiner Generation. Funf seiner Romane wurden mit dem Ned Kelly Award ausgezeichnet. International bekannt wurde er mit seinem Roman 'Kalter August', der 2007 bei C. Bertelsmann erschien. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Ballarat, Australien.

''When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.'' A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend Ned Lowey is found hanged, Mac - who has learned the hard way never to accept things at face value - isn''t convinced he committed suicide and starts asking questions. Why did Ned keep press cuttings about the skeleton of a girl found in an old mine shaft? What was he doing at Kinross Hall, the local detention centre for juvenile girls? Who was the beaten girl found naked beside a lonely road? As Mac''s search for answers pushes deeper into the past, it resurrects the terrifying spectre of what he calls his ''old life'', forcing him to turn to long-discarded skills not only to discover why his best friend died, but also to save his own life.

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. Worst of all, hijackers have robbed and brutally beaten one of the gambling team. So it''s not surprising that Jack''s mind is not fully on the job he''s being paid to do: find Robbie Colburne, occasional barman. But when Jack does get serious, he finds that the freelance drink-dispenser is of great interest to some powerful people, people with very bad habits and a distinct lack of respect for the criminal justice system...Any lapse in concentration could prove fatal.

Jack Irish - gambler, lawyer, finder of missing people - is recovering from a foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack''s father. It''s an offer he soon regrets. As Jack begins his search, he discovers that prodigal sons sometimes go missing for a reason. Gary Connors was a man with something to hide, and his trail leads Jack to millionaire and political kingmaker Steven Levesque, a man harboring a deep and deadly secret. Black Tide, the second book in Peter Temple''s celebrated Jack Irish series, takes us back into a brilliantly evoked world of pubs, racetracks, and sports - not to mention intrigue, corruption, and violence.

Después de un traumático incidente, el detective de homicidios Joe Cashin abandona su trabajo en Sydney y regresa a su pueblo natal para ponerse al frente de la comisaría de la localidad.

Broken by his last case, homicide detective Joe Cashin has fled the city and returned to his hometown to run its one-man police station while his wounds heal and the nightmares fade. He lives a quiet life with his two dogs in the tumbledown wreck his family home has become. It''s a peaceful existence - ideal for the rehabilitating man. But his recovery is rudely interrupted by a brutal attack on Charles Bourgoyne, a prominent member of the local community. Suspicion falls on three young men from the local Aboriginal community. But Cashin''s not so sure and as the case unfolds amid simmering corruption and prejudice, he finds himself holding on to something that it might be better to let go. Winner of Australia''s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year, winner of the Australian Publishing Book of the Year Award and nominated for the Miles Franklin Award (Australia''s premier literary award), "The Broken Shore" has been published internationally to critical acclaim.

La primera novela de Jack Irish. Galardonada con el premio Ned Nelly a la mejor novela policíaca. Melbourne en invierno. Lluvia. Viento. Bares. Cerveza. Sexo. Corrupción. Un asesinato. A Jack Irish, un mensaje en el contestador de su antiguo cliente, Danny McKillop, no le suena de nada. La vida ya es lo bastante dura como para tener que volver a sacar a la luz viejos problemas: su equipo de futbol favorito continua perdiendo, los pronosticos en su ultima apuesta en las carreras parecen imposibles, y todavia sigue cocinando para uno. Entonces, Danny aparece muerto y Jack tiene que volver a pasear por el lado oscuro de un pasado peligroso. Nacido en Sudafrica, Peter Temple se fue a vivir a Australia en 1980 para trabajar de periodista. Desde la publicacion de su primera novela en 1995, Temple ha cosechado innumerables exitos en Australia y ha sido galardonado con cuatro Ned Kelly Awards, uno de los premios literarios mas importantes de ese pais.

Jack Irish is recovering from his last foray into the criminal underworld when he agrees to look for the missing son of Des Connors, the last living link to Jack''s father. It''s an offer he soon regrets, as he discovers that prodigal sons often go missing for a reason, and they always have something to hide. The second book in Peter Temple''s Jack Irish series, Black Tide takes us back into a brilliantly evoked world of pubs, racetracks, and sports ? not to mention intrigue, corruption, and violence.