| Record Number |
626879 |
| ISBN |
9781921351389 (paperback) |
| 9781925773231 (paperback) |
| Author |
Temple, Peter, 1946-2018 author. |
| Title |
Shooting star / Peter Temple ; [introduced by Adrian McKinty]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019. |
| ©1999 |
| Pagination etc. |
xii, 232 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Text classics |
| Contents note |
First published: Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Bantam Books, 1999. |
| Summary Note |
Anne Carson: fifteen, beautiful, wayward. Abducted.Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and disgraced police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers. Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refused, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before.But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief.As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die. |
| Subject |
Kidnapping -- Fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Added Author |
McKinty, Adrian author of introduction, etc. |
| Shelf Location |
F TEMP |
