Bad Debts
Автор:
Temple PeterЖанр:
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3Дата добавления:
2013-11-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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With gold-toothed thugs threatening him with sub-machine guns and the corpses piling up, Jack Irish needs to find out what is going on and fast. From Publishers Weekly Australian Jack Irish—ex-lawyer and sometime debt collector, cabinetmaker and barfly—gets a double introduction as MacAdam/Cage releases his first two adventures (number two is Black Tide) this month. Jack's a gumshoe in classic hard-boiled style: there's his clipped, black-humor dialogue, his hard-drinking past and his sad backstory (his wife was murdered by one of his clients). When Jack gets a desperate message from Danny McKillop, whom he defended years before on a hit-and-run charge 'at the beginning of the forgotten zone, the year or so I spent drunk,' he takes a while to call him back. When he does,...
