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Zero at the Bone
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Zero at the Bone
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) David Whish-Wilson
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:288 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 230,Width 151 |
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| Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780670077533
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Random House Australia
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| Imprint |
Viking Australia
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| Publication Date |
21 August 2013 |
| Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
For ex-detective Frank Swann, being on the outside of Western Australia's police force is the only way to get justice done. Perth in 1979 is a city of celebration and corruption. There are street parties, official glad-handing - even a royal visit - to commemmorate a century and a half since colonisation. But behind the festivities a new kind of land grab is going on, this time for mining leases. The price of gold is up, and few are incorruptible before its lure. When Swann is hired to probe the suicide of a well-regarded geologist, he's drawn into a mire of vice and fraud that has at its heart a lust for wealth that verges on a disease...Zero at the Bone lifts the lid on Perth at the start of the mining boom to show a town where the establishment and the lawless blend into one.
Author Biography
David Whish-Wilson is the author of short stories and the novels The Summons and Line of Sight.
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