{"product_id":"2026200011355-secondhand-the-dying-trade","title":"The Dying Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSydney'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.\n\nOften 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161033875675,"sku":"2026200011355-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5351ba3f-784d-43e4-8ac7-78fc077e7234.png?v=1787189489","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011355-secondhand-the-dying-trade","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}