Win, Lose or Draw
Cliff Hardy
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July 17, 2017
Ned Kelly Award–winner Corris’s workmanlike 42nd and final crime novel featuring PI Cliff Hardy (after 2016’s That Empty Feeling) takes Hardy on a fast-paced, libation-fueled chase from Sydney to various towns along the Australian coast in search of missing teen Juliana Fonteyn. Though he’s recovering from bypass surgery and admits to a prejudice against the rich, Hardy’s declining PI firm needs a cash infusion, so when Juliana’s distraught and exceedingly well-heeled father asks him to find her, Hardy takes on the job. Aided by a number of shady part-time assistants and freely spending Fonteyn’s money, Hardy runs afoul of crooked cops and some sleazy gangsters, in particular an Errol Flynn look-alike who claims to be the Hollywood actor’s illegitimate son. The comfortably predictable plot builds to a less than earth-shaking resolution, but readers will enjoy the ride through the mean Australian streets and beaches.
September 1, 2017
Tenacious Australian PI Cliff Hardy is approached by affluent businessman Gerard Fonteyn to help find his missing daughter Juliana. Hardy reluctantly agrees, becoming embroiled in a case involving drugs and prostitution. The PI spends Fonteyn's funds traveling from Sydney to Norfolk Island, while teaming with disreputable assistants (including Juliana's determinedly dissolute brother, Foxy) and contending with crooked cops and gangsters. The players in this treacherous game are all out to win, and the body count rises as the story moves to its conclusion. The first Cliff Hardy book debuted almost 35 years ago, and this fast-paced, hard-boiled series earned Corris a Ned Kelly Award and recognition as the father of Australian crime fiction. Over the years, Corris's sleuth has survived all kinds of run-ins with unsavory players; this is his final case. VERDICT Readers may wish to delve into more Australia-based crime fiction by checking out other Ned Kelly winners, especially Peter Temple and Garry Disher.--ACT
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