Thornydevils
Reviewed By Ian Banks July 15, 2014
Author TW Lawless
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ISBN: 978-1-925-11283-2
Publisher: TW Lawless
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Website: http://www.twlawless.com
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When hard-drinking, hard-living reporter Peter Clancy gets offered a promotion as the Crime reporter for the Truth newspaper he’s not sure if the paper is going broke and this is a joke, or it’s for real! Turns out it’s for real and before he knows it he’s heading once again for hated Townsville and the Hilliard trial, both as a witness and surreptitiously as a reporter.
The up side of this is he meets up with an old friend in Dave Tindal, who is also giving evidence in the Trial, and in an emotional reunion, discovers long time mate and stockman Sam has survived an attack that should have left him for dead.
Sam and Dave go down to Melbourne after the Hilliard trial to start a new life, believing that as far away from Townsville the better for their continued existence. Dave becomes the photographer for the Truth and Sam gets work on the Melbourne docks.
His life as a crime reporter becomes all too real as he finds once again he is the story, not just reporting on the story, when his lead informant on the faction wars between the O’Leary and the Donarto families, Slugger, a friend of Peters and an ex-boxer, is killed.
Trouble is Slugger is not always reliable and has the information he’s been giving to Peter the real thing or not.
Along with the love interest, that of young lawyer Poppy, Peter sets out to try and find out just what has been going on and where the dots all join up.
Amongst all this his new role as crime reporter dictates he still has to meet deadlines, which is often proving to be more than a challenge.
The plot is well thought out, fast and furious, twisting and turning from the newsroom of the Truth to the docks of Melbourne. The more Peter digs, the further drawn into the underworld he becomes, finding that all and everyone are not what they seem.
Once again a fantastic read by TW Lawless in this second crime fiction, with ace reporter Peter Clancy taking the hard knocks, as he once again reluctantly sets out to discover ‘who dun-it’.
If you have not read the first crime fiction from TW Lawless, Homecountry, now is the time to do it as we will be no doubt, be reading more from this writer.