Laws Are Like Cobwebs
Published on 1. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-7636921-3-8 (ISBN)
Description
DCI Jack Martin has always tried to do the right thing. Can the police force say the same?
Melbourne, 1998: A spate of gangland murders. New drug supplies hitting the streets. Illegal brothels are springing up all over the city, and a massive explosion at a waste disposal plant reveals disturbing links between the city's underbelly and respectable corporations. As Jack and his team investigate, they uncover a toxic web of illegal waste disposal, forced labour, fraud and police corruption that goes to the very top and forces Jack to reevaluate his career and take a stand.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7636921-3-8 (9781763692138)
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Person
John Tully is an Australian historian and novelist. He lives in the far south of Tasmania but lived and worked in Melbourne's west for 35 years. He grew up in Tasmanian hydro construction towns after emigrating with his parents as a child from the UK, and before becoming a history professor he earned his living as a rigger in construction and heavy industry. He is the author of numerous non-fiction publications including a short history of Cambodia and a social history of the world rubber industry. This is his seventh novel.