A gritty, tough no nonsense crime thriller – a great read!
Peter Corris
Gun Control
Cliff Hardy #40
Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781760112066
rrp A$29.99
Description:
Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops – former members of the Gun Control Unit – outlaw bikies and honest police trying to quietly clean the stables.
Two more murders raise the stakes and relationships are stretched to breaking point. Hardy hooks up with a determined policewoman and forms an unlikely alliance with a charismatic bikie chief.
Uncovering the tangled conspiracy behind the murders takes Hardy to the Blue Mountains and Camden, to plush legal chambers and a confrontation in an inner-west park – all against the roar of 750cc engines.
My View:
A gritty, tough no nonsense crime thriller – a great read!
I have only read a couple of books from this series but I want to read them all! Can you imagine the delight of discovering an author you love who has published forty book in a series and you haven’t read more than one or two of them – forty books you will be able to consume one after the other? Fantastic! I cannot imagine I more enjoyable way to spend some time.
Back to this book – contemporary issues, a straight talking PI and a secondary character (Paul) who is intriguing and whom I think we will see more of in future books – I hope. A great read. Start a new good habit today – pick up a book in the Cliff Hardy series. Enjoy.
I really do like the Cliff Hardy series, too, Carol. Haven’t read all of them, myself – not nearly. But he’s a great character, I think. And I give Corris so much credit for keeping the series consistently good for so long.
Margot – I amazed by your depth of reading. It must be great to be one of your students and be able to absorb all this knowledge. And back to the book – Corris is good and relevant.
Carol, I think it will take you quite a while to get through 40 books without digressing to your other books!!
Very true Janine☺️
38 books added to your TBR then? No problem! You should get through them in a couple of weeks… 😉
More like a month – I am limiting myself to one a night 🙂