Silent Kill

 Silent Kill

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       January 9, 2014

 

Author  Peter Corris

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ISBN:                 978-1-74331-637-5
Publisher:         Allen & Unwin
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Cliff Hardy is back once again in a cliff-hanger, pardon the pun, guaranteed to keep you turning the pages as his latest case takes him into unexplored territory in more ways than one.

Approached by long-time acquaintance Jack Buchanan, Cliff is offered a job all too easy to refuse. As he has nothing much on his books and phone is hardly ringing off the hook, he reluctantly agrees to be the security agent for political firebrand Rory O’Hara on his forthcoming tour. By agreeing Hardy has no real idea just what he has agreed to, but soon discovers it wasn’t certainly was not what he was told.

Just hours into his new job he begins to realise all is not as it would seem to be and although O’Hara appears to have the charm of the devil himself, there are far too many inconsistencies with the undertaking that begin to worry him. Some things simply do not add up.

By the end of his first day he is out of a job with an abduction and murder on his hands as well as having to deal with some very dodge people.

Add a seriously interesting, slightly mysterious former PA of O’Hara’s for not only the love interested but a big part of the very nasty mystery Hardy has found himself embroiled in, along with some powerful commercial and political connections and we find Hardy ranging from Darwin to Canberra, with the plot getting more and more complex as he begins to suspect that either he has been set up or there really is something or somebody really murky involved.

As he moves further into the investigation of the murder of one of O’Hara’s staff, it begins to look like this could be by far one of the nastiest cases in which he has ever been involved. But it is not until he finds himself the victim, after being bashed on the head at a simple stakeout, he begins to get some idea of just who else in involved and what is really at stake.

Hardy finds himself being pushed to his limit both physically and emotionally as he becomes determined to find the killer who has gone way too far.

This is Cliff Hardy at his best, doing what he does best and always getting his man.

Fiction