From the award-winning Jon Cleary, a novel featuring Sydney detective Scobie Malone. When the Sydney Police Minister's son dies, Malone is caught in a maelstrom of politics, money, murder, and power.
When the Sydney police minister's son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool.
Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a series of cold-blooded precision killings, and layers of political intrigue.
Scobie thinks he is immune to politics, but he is soon engulfed in its consequences: the police minister applies pressure, a millionaire banker becomes less than his public image, a hit man goes about his grisly work, and three of Sydney's most powerful (and libidinous) women give Scobie a glimpse of how life in Sydney really operates.
Finally, when he is forced to accept aid from his onetime enemy, top criminal Jack Aldwych, now retired but still ruthless, Malone learns once again that when politics and money are arrayed against him, the odds are never even.
- ISBN10 0688136974
- ISBN13 9780688136970
- Publish Date 1 May 1995 (first published 20 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint William Morrow & Company
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 292
- Language English