Master's Mates (Cliff Hardy series) - Softcover

Corris, Peter

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9781741141368: Master's Mates (Cliff Hardy series)

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ISBN 10: 1741141362 ISBN 13: 9781741141368

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2005

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In this hard-boiled detective novel, private investigator Cliff Hardy is looking forward to his new assignment. When rich, beautiful Lorraine Master hires him to look into the circumstances surrounding her husband's conviction for smuggling heroin on the island paradise of New Caledonia, Hardy welcomes the idea of a week on a generous expense account under a tropical sky. But his island escape proves to be anything but relaxing as he finds Stewart Master's business associates to be a difficult and dangerous bunch. The action returns to Hardy's normal stomping grounds of Sydney, Australia, where he and his client become targets in an intricate conspiracy gone seriously wrong and tangle with a tricky lawyer and a corrupt ex-cop. With punchy dialogue and exotic settings, this is a fresh adventure for a well-established character with an international following.

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About the Author:

Peter Corris is the author of the Cliff Hardy detective novels. He is also the author of A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris and the coauthor of Fred Hollows: An Autobiography.

From Booklist:

After a couple of decades, your typical mystery series tends to get a little stale. But there are exceptions: Westlake's Dortmunder novels (35 years), McBain's 87th Precinct series (49 years), and Corris' Cliff Hardy series, which is now at the quarter-century mark and still going strong. Unlike the oft-reprinted novels of Westlake and McBain, however, Australian Corris' work is not widely available in the U.S. The publication of this representative Hardy novel should help change that. In Master's Mates, Hardy is hired by a beautiful woman to look into her husband's heroin-smuggling conviction. He uncovers a nasty little conspiracy that threatens his own life, but as usual he has the guts to get himself out of the scrape. The Hardy series doesn't depend on snazzy prose, flashy characters, and stunning plot twists. Rather, Corris sticks to basics--a likable lead, a solid mystery, plenty of action and humor--and keeps grinding them out. This series could go on another quarter century, easy. David Pitt
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