Gun control

Format:

Book

Title:

Gun control

Author:

Corris, Peter author

ISBN:

9781760112066

9781760291068

Publication:

Sydney ; Melbourne ; Auckland ; London : Allen & Unwin, 2015.

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 24 cm

Series title(s):

Cliff Hardy novels ;

Number in series:

40.

Summary:

Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops - former members of the Gun Control Unit - outlaw bikies and honest police trying to quietly clean the stables. Two more murders raise the stakes and relationships are stretched to breaking point. Hardy hooks up with a determined policewoman and forms an unlikely alliance with a charismatic bikie chief. Uncovering the tangled conspiracy behind the murders takes Hardy to the Blue Mountains and Camden, to plush legal chambers and a confrontation in an inner-west park - all against the roar of 750cc engines.

Personal Subject:

Hardy, Cliff (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Hardy, Cliff (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00951435

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction.

Motorcycle gangs -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New South Wales -- Sydney.

Genre:

Australian fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Holds:

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Summary

In the 40th Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settled

Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops--former members of the Gun Control Unit--outlaw bikers, and honest police trying to quietly clean the stables. Two more murders raise the stakes, and relationships are stretched to breaking point. Hardy hooks up with a determined policewoman and forms an unlikely alliance with a charismatic biker chief. Uncovering the tangled conspiracy behind the murders takes Hardy to the Blue Mountains and Camden, to plush legal chambers, and a confrontation in an inner-west park--all against the roar of 750 cc engines.

Author Notes

Peter Corris was born in Stawell, Victoria, Australia on May 8, 1942. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne, a master's degree in history from Monash University, and a PhD in history from the Australian National University. He worked as a professor until 1975 when he decided to become a journalist. He was as literary editor of The National Times from 1979 to 1980. He decided to become a full-time writer in 1982.

His first book, The Dying Trade, was published in 1980. He was best known for the Cliff Hardy series. He also wrote collaborative biographies with Philip Nitschke, Fred Hollows, John Sinclair, and Ray Barrett. His autobiography, Sweet and Sour: A Diabetic Life, was published in 2000. He received the Ned Kelly Award for lifetime achievement in 1999, the Ned Kelly Award for best novel in 2009 for Deep Water, and the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival's inaugural Danger Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. He died on August 30, 2018 at the age of 76.

(Bowker Author Biography)