Dan Delaney Mysteries #06: The Convict Stain

Dan Delaney Mysteries #06: The Convict Stain
David McGill
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31 Jul 2021 NZ
9780995133631
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"Late January 1985 Dame Kiri is launching Vukovich Sauvignon Blanc on the Sydney Opera House steps with major shareholders the Delaney family present. The American nuclear warship the Buchanan is in harbour for ANZUS exercises and protesters are out in force, among them Ali Delaney and her American boyfriend. Detective Sergeant Maria Pikowai, nee Delaney, is in town as protection detail for New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange secretly meeting his Australian counterpart Bob Hawke in the Sydney Hilton hotel. DS Pikowai joins Australian and American security forces confronting plots to sink the warship, kidnap Lange and destroy the ANZUS accord. Then there are the Delaney family problems damned and potentially redeemed by the convict stain.
Praise for this novel from internationally known writers NZ' s premier playwright Sir Roger Hall: ' Cracking yarn' ;Dame Fiona Kidman, current winner of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Award: ' A vivid inside view of Israel as well as rattling along with a fast-paced crime story' ;Graeme Lay, author of bestselling James Cook novels: ' The tautly structured plot of this thriller grips the reader from the first to the final page. Set in the so-called Holy Land, the novel' s characters and themes are as meaningful today as they were during the 1970s setting. Jerusalem - spiritual home to Jews, Moslems and Christians - is vividly evoked and forms a vibrant backdrop to the conflicts and tribulations of the Delaney family. ' Previous novels in the Dan Delaney series:The Death Ray Debacle: ' A fast-paced action spy story builds to a great climactic finish. ' Tim Gruar, Booksellers NZ;The Plot to Kill Peter Fraser: ' What I really loved about this book is the way it presents New Zealand plonk in the middle of international political history. ' Alyson Baker, Crime Watch; On a Bodgie Bike: ' Trilogy of local thrillers are pacy novels informed by honest and astute social histories. ' Murray Gray, director of Going West Books and Writers' Festival; Death of an Agent: ' 1960s Wellington, at once naive and cultured, is lovingly portrayed. ' Second-Hand Wedding screenwriter Linda Niccol
This is the 59th book by Kiwi social historian and latterly crime fiction writer, and the first with an international setting. Previously he has written exclusively New Zealand stories, drawing on his histories of the New Zealand Police services and New Zealand and German prisoners-of-war, his years as a journalist interviewing people in New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Britain, and, in this case, blind Arab Christian girls in Bethlehem. Throughout his working life he has kept diaries that have been his most valuable resource, particularly with his fiction.

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