Iron Rose Text Classics

Author: Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)

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  • : $12.95 AUD
  • : 9781921922305
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
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  • : June 2013
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : Australia
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  • : Peter Temple; Les Carlyon (Introduction by)
  • : Text Classics Ser.
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781921922305
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Description

Introduced by Les CarlyonI looked up. The rope was tied to a rolled steel joist about two metres above the truck cab. Ned had climbed up on to the cab roof, tied the rope to the joist, slid it along. Tied a slipknot around his neck. And stepped off the cab roof.Peter Temple is one of the world's great crime writers. In this enthralling novel, he tells the story of a man who has left a dangerous job to make a new life in the country. But the death of his father's best friend plunges him back into a world of violence and deceit. www.textclassics.com.au

Author description

Peter Temple has won five Ned Kelly Awards for his novels, and won the world's most prestigious crimewriting prize, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger. In 2010 he was awarded Australia's greatest writing prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award.