'With convincing characterization and a realistic portrayal of Australian life, veteran writer Cleary has produced an absorbing tale' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PRAISE FOR JON CLEARY:
'When the ruminants and the lucre-chasers are growing lichen on library shelves Jon Cleary will continue to be read'
LOS ANGELES TIMES
'Enough plot twists and conspiracy-making ingredients to satisfy the most demanding aficionado of the genre'
IRISH TIMES
'The business of a novelist is to tell a story. Jon Cleary has that talent in abundance' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'The Malone stories come alive through their setting ... Cleary's writing is seamless and his plots imaginative and mature' MIAMI HERALD
'Cleary is a national literary institution... If Australia has a crime writer who deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Ed McBain, Ruth Rendell, and P.D James, then it is Cleary' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
