Jack Irish #03: Dead Point

- Blurb -

Winner of the Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Fiction 2001, and third in the Jack Irish series, Dead Point is Peter Temple at his finest. As usual, Temple does a good job of mixing the action with sardonic slices of humour and spot-on observations of Jack's world of Melbourne racetracks, smoky pubs and old cafes. Also running effectively through the book is a pervasive, haunting sense of a changing world and lost opportunities ...ln short, another world class crime novel from Peter Temple. Canberra Tinxes In the past couple of nears Peter Temple has built up a reputation as the coolest and most elegant of Australian crime writers, and It's not hard to see why ... Temple has the quality Chandler had of actually being interested in his own characters and in the depiction of their behavior, and it allows him to write with great panache and with an absolutely diverting alternation of tension and relaxation. Peter Craven, Age Peter Temple writes his classy prose with a Melbourne sense of fatalism; understands how the winds sharpen wits in that city and correct against hedonism ... spare, deeply ironic; his wit, like the local beer, as cold as a dental anaesthetic. Australian Jack Irish-lawyer, gambler, finder of people who don't want to be found - is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colburne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose. The case should be closed, but the dashing young barman vas far from what he'seemed, and the client wants to know more. As lack explores the young man's past, he finds himself drawn into a deadly network of power, politics and money. In this world nothing can be taken at face value and everyone is expendable-including lack.