White Dog: Jack Irish, Book Four

Awards:   Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2019 (Australia) Winner of Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2003 (Australia)
Author:   Peter Temple
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Edition:   4th edition
ISBN:  

9781925773323


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   03 December 2018
Format:   Paperback
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White Dog: Jack Irish, Book Four


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Awards

  • Short-listed for Australian Book Design Awards 2019 (Australia)
  • Winner of Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction 2003 (Australia)

Overview

The fourth and final book in the iconic Jack Irish series, and the winner of the 2003 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel. Jack Irish-gambler, cook and cabinetmaker, finder of people who don't want to be found-has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save the beautiful sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap. Jack soon discovers there was nothing straightforward about property developer Mickey Franklin's death, and falls headlong into a world of shady deals, sexual secrets and country rednecks.

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Author:   Peter Temple
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.264kg
ISBN:  

9781925773323


ISBN 10:   1925773329
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   03 December 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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`Temple's ear for dialogue and the vernacular was quite something-and had him compared to the masterful Detroit-native Elmore Leonard.' * NZ Metro * `Temple himself is a master craftsman...The breathless, terrifying ending provides top-notch suspense.' * Booklist * `A joy-ride of a book.' * Adelaide Advertiser * `There's not much left that counts for a hill of beans in this crazy world, but one safe bet is a new book by Peter Temple.' * Age * `Well-crafted characters, plenty of tough action and wry reflections on the seamier side of Melbourne life...Another world-class crime novel by one of Australia's best and most consistent crime novelists.' * Canberra Times * `Temple's clipped, observant, journalistic prose style ensures that the pages of the novel [are] turned almost unaided...Temple captures the atmosphere, mood and tempo of Melbourne-a town that is conservative, philistine, provincial, gruffly sentimental, nostalgic, sport-obsessed, materialistic and cheerfully callous. The misadventures of Jack Irish are true to that spirit.' * Australian Book Review * `This is a clever, fast-moving and multi-faceted yarn that dips into the routines and characters of the everyday, extrapolating to the extreme and the bizarre that extend beyond the best exposes of the tabloids.' * Herald Sun * `A brilliant novel of shady deals, sexual secrets, untimely death, dark horses and a beautiful sculptor...' * Australian * `The author uses a staccato style, perhaps born of Ellroy but now indisputably his own, that conveys action and feelings word by word, phrase by phrase. Close to poetry, it infuses Jack Irish and his mortal concerns deeply into every page. Though plot underpins the book, in the final analysis this is character exploration at its best...I judge it to be the best Jack Irish yet. The upshot of my reading? Go for Peter Temple. His hero will stick and stick and stick.' * Crime Factory *


`Temple himself is a master craftsman...The breathless, terrifying ending provides top-notch suspense.' * Booklist * `A joy-ride of a book.' * Adelaide Advertiser * `There's not much left that counts for a hill of beans in this crazy world, but one safe bet is a new book by Peter Temple.' * Age * `Well-crafted characters, plenty of tough action and wry reflections on the seamier side of Melbourne life...Another world-class crime novel by one of Australia's best and most consistent crime novelists.' * Canberra Times * `Temple's clipped, observant, journalistic prose style ensures that the pages of the novel [are] turned almost unaided...Temple captures the atmosphere, mood and tempo of Melbourne-a town that is conservative, philistine, provincial, gruffly sentimental, nostalgic, sport-obsessed, materialistic and cheerfully callous. The misadventures of Jack Irish are true to that spirit.' * Australian Book Review * `This is a clever, fast-moving and multi-faceted yarn that dips into the routines and characters of the everyday, extrapolating to the extreme and the bizarre that extend beyond the best exposes of the tabloids.' * Herald Sun * `A brilliant novel of shady deals, sexual secrets, untimely death, dark horses and a beautiful sculptor...' * Australian * `The author uses a staccato style, perhaps born of Ellroy but now indisputably his own, that conveys action and feelings word by word, phrase by phrase. Close to poetry, it infuses Jack Irish and his mortal concerns deeply into every page. Though plot underpins the book, in the final analysis this is character exploration at its best...I judge it to be the best Jack Irish yet. The upshot of my reading? Go for Peter Temple. His hero will stick and stick and stick.' * Crime Factory *


Author Information

Peter Temple is widely regarded as one of Australia's finest writers, and his novels have been published in twenty countries. During his lifetime he worked extensively as a journalist and editor, before teaching editing and media studies at a number of universities. His novels, among them the Jack Irish series, Truth, The Broken Shore and An Iron Rose, are celebrated as some of the best crime writing in English. Temple died in March 2018.

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