The Dying Trade
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Sydney's sun-drenched underbelly has never looked more dangerous than in The Dying Trade, the debut novel that introduced Australian crime fiction's most enduring anti-hero, private investigator Cliff Hardy. When Hardy is hired to locate a missing person, what begins as a routine job rapidly unravels into a labyrinthine web of corruption, violence, and deceit set against the vivid backdrop of 1970s New South Wales. Peter Corris crafts a narrative that is as morally complex as it is propulsive, immersing the reader in a world where loyalty is a currency and the truth costs dearly. Often credited as the father of Australian crime fiction, Corris reinvents the hardboiled detective tradition — drawing deeply from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett — and transplants it with masterful authenticity onto Australian soil. The Dying Trade established the gritty, laconic voice and the blue-collar stoicism that would come to define the entire Cliff Hardy series, spanning dozens of novels over four decades. Corris's Sydney is rendered with the precision of a city intimately known and unflinchingly observed — a place where paradise and peril occupy the same postcode. For readers who have yet to discover Hardy, this is the beginning of an addiction.
Author: Peter Corris
Format: Hardback
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Sydney's sun-drenched underbelly has never looked more dangerous than in The Dying Trade, the debut novel that introduced Australian crime fiction's most enduring anti-hero, private investigator Cliff Hardy. When Hardy is hired to locate a missing person, what begins as a routine job rapidly unravels into a labyrinthine web of corruption, violence, and deceit set against the vivid backdrop of 1970s New South Wales. Peter Corris crafts a narrative that is as morally complex as it is propulsive, immersing the reader in a world where loyalty is a currency and the truth costs dearly. Often credited as the father of Australian crime fiction, Corris reinvents the hardboiled detective tradition — drawing deeply from Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett — and transplants it with masterful authenticity onto Australian soil. The Dying Trade established the gritty, laconic voice and the blue-collar stoicism that would come to define the entire Cliff Hardy series, spanning dozens of novels over four decades. Corris's Sydney is rendered with the precision of a city intimately known and unflinchingly observed — a place where paradise and peril occupy the same postcode. For readers who have yet to discover Hardy, this is the beginning of an addiction.