The Big Ask: A Murray Whelan Mystery - Hardcover

Maloney, Shane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559705604 ISBN 13: 9781559705608

Verlag: Arcade Publishing, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election is looming, and his days as advisor to Angelo Agnelli, minister for transport, may be numbered. His son, on loan to his ex-wife, is missing and may be in danger. His ex-fling, Heather, is prowling for his inner prince. And on an icy Melbourne winter morning, he has a rendezvous with a renegade driver in the corrupt truckers union. After that meeting, and a possible run-in with a well-known Italian self-help organization, nothing can save him from another wildly funny, fresh, and fast-paced comic misadventure.

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Shane Maloney is the author of Stiff, The Brush-Off, and Nice Try. He lives in Melbourne with his family.

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The latest Murray Whelan mystery is perhaps a little too much like its predecessors. Like Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy novels, in which Gash seemed to be writing the same novel over and over again, the Whelan series seems to have fallen into something of a rut. Once again Whelan, the political advisor who always seems to wind up in mortal jeopardy, has to solve a mystery with his odd combination of luck and wit; this one requires him to infiltrate a powerful trade union. Once again there's plenty of politics, some seedy characters, and lots of wisecracking. Maloney is a perfectly accomplished writer in the hard-boiled mode (The Brush-Off, one of his earlier Whelan novels, won Australia's Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction), but he's facing a dilemma common to authors of series: how to keep it fresh without giving up a successful formula. Maloney hasn't found the answer yet, but his series is good enough to give him time to keep looking. David Pitt
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Shane Maloney (Nice Try) presents The Big Ask: A Murray Whelan Mystery, the fourth raucous adventure featuring the charming and reckless Australian political adviser. Murray makes dizzying, sleep-deprived leaps between high-stakes union infighting, his missing 13-year-old son, various love interests, his boss's potential public disgrace and his old friend's murder.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arcade Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1559705604
• ISBN 13: 9781559705608
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 243
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