About this ebook
It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, prominent lawyer and president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney. The next day, the body of a security guard is fished out of the harbor. During the ensuing investigation, a talented rookie cop is ruthlessly gunned down. The trail Inspector Scobie Malone uncovers leads to betrayal: betrayal between brothers, when jealousy causes estrangement and murder and betrayal between countrymen, when cynicism triumphs over patriotism and sparks a multi-million-dollar international intrigue.
About the author
Jon Cleary (1917 – 2010) was an Australian author whose illustrious career spanned over five decades. He began his Scobie Malone mystery series in the 1960s with the now-classic The High Commissioner. Several of his works were adapted for film and mini-series.
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