Dead Point Jack Irish #3 by Peter Temple

Dead Point Jack Irish #3 by Peter TempleThe 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 missing barman Robbie Colburne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose. The case should be closed, but the dashing young

has shaped the Western political and moral imagination in the postwar era

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Drawing on original letters and journals

she too goes on a voyage of discovery

It was supposed to be easy

bound and gagged in the back of a car being driven god knows where by a man whose name she doesn't know

the friends must hunt the enemy before he kills again

It offers hope and a powerful affirmation of our potential for change

the butterflies fly

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