That Empty Feeling
Published on 1. January 2017
264 pages
978-1-925575-88-0 (ISBN)
Description
The forty-first book in the Cliff Hardy series
Legendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colourful characters, and Cliff is reminded of a case involving 'Ten-Pound Pom' Barry Bartlett and racing identity and investor Sir Keith Mountjoy.
Bartlett, a former rugby league player and boxing manager, then a prosperous property developer, had hired Hardy to check on the bona fides of young Ronny Saunders, newly arrived from England and claiming to be Bartlett's son from an early failed marriage. The job brought Hardy into contact with Richard Keppler, head of the no-rules Botany Security Systems, Bronwen Marr, an undercover AFP operative, and sworn adversary Des O'Malley.
At a time when corporate capitalism was running riot, an embattled Hardy searched for leads - was Ronny Saunders a pawn in a game involving big oil and fraud on an international scale? Two murders raised the stakes and with the sinister figure of Lady Betty Lee Mountjoy pulling the strings, it was odds against a happy outcome.
Legendary PI Cliff Hardy has reached an age when the obituaries have become part of his reading, and one triggers his memory of a case in the late 1980s. Back then Sydney was awash with colourful characters, and Cliff is reminded of a case involving 'Ten-Pound Pom' Barry Bartlett and racing identity and investor Sir Keith Mountjoy.
Bartlett, a former rugby league player and boxing manager, then a prosperous property developer, had hired Hardy to check on the bona fides of young Ronny Saunders, newly arrived from England and claiming to be Bartlett's son from an early failed marriage. The job brought Hardy into contact with Richard Keppler, head of the no-rules Botany Security Systems, Bronwen Marr, an undercover AFP operative, and sworn adversary Des O'Malley.
At a time when corporate capitalism was running riot, an embattled Hardy searched for leads - was Ronny Saunders a pawn in a game involving big oil and fraud on an international scale? Two murders raised the stakes and with the sinister figure of Lady Betty Lee Mountjoy pulling the strings, it was odds against a happy outcome.
Reviews / Votes
Reminds you just how good Peter Corris is, what a legend his private-detective character Cliff Hardy is. * Sydney Morning Herald * This is one to pick up immediately. It is a book that will be read in a single sitting. * Herald Sun * This is vintage Hardy, with the friends in low places, the charisma, the multivalent plot, the sexy but gifted female co-star, and most of all the sights, smells and sounds of Corris' and Hardy's beloved Sydney. * Sydney Morning Herald * Another well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable Cliff Hardy adventure by the always reliable Corris. * Canberra Times * The novel is classic Corris/Hardy - fast, clean, economical prose, its engagingly sardonic main character as slow to judge as he is quick to act, a palpable sense of the book's inner-Sydney setting and some evocative writing * Adelaide Advertiser *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
NSW
Australia
File size
1,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-925575-88-0 (9781925575880)
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Peter Corris has been writing his bestselling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. He's written many other books, including a very successful 'as-told-to' autobiography of Fred Hollows, and a collection of short stories about golf.
