An Iron Rose An Iron Rose

An Iron Rose

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Publisher Description

The classic thriller by the five-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award. Introduction by Les Carlyon.


When Mac Faraday’s best friend is found hanging, the assumption is suicide. But Mac is far from convinced, and he’s a man who knows not to accept things at face value.

A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac is living the quiet life of a country blacksmith—a life connected to a place, connected to its people.

But Mac carries a burden of fear and vigilance from his old life.

And as this past of secrets, corruption, abuse and murder begins to close in, he must turn to long-forgotten resources to hang on to everything he holds dear, including his own life.

Peter Temple is one of Australia’s finest writers, the winner of Australia’s premier prize for literature in 2010, the Miles Franklin Award, and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for his novel Truth. Born in South Africa, Peter Temple settled in Australia in 1980 and worked as a journalist and teacher before becoming a full-time novelist. Temple has written nine novels and has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction five times.

Les Carlyon is the author of Gallipoli, a bestseller in Australia, Britain and New Zealand, The Great War, which was voted book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards, and The Master: A Personal Portrait of Bart Cummings.

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'An Iron Rose has Temple’s usual grizzled police veteran as the central character, a despicable and mystifying crime and a support crew of goodies and baddies – although as in most of Temple’s novels many make the switch to the dark side by the end of the book. But don’t read it for the story line; read it for the language. Temple’s dry Australian vernacular and wit should be required reading for everyone above the age of 16. This edition is introduced by Les Carlyon, a better match for Temple’s writing I could not imagine.' Melbourne Weekly


‘A must for thriller seekers.’ Who Weekly

‘Fast, funny and assured.’ Australian Book Review

‘The coolest and most elegant of Australian crime writers.’ Age

‘Temple is a phenomenon.’ Sydney Morning Herald

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2012
26 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
The Text Publishing Company
SELLER
Text Publishing
SIZE
1
MB

Customer Reviews

Rowville jill ,

An iron rose

Another great yarn from Peter Temple.

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