Gangland killings, drugs, peadophiles, prostitution, corruption ...
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"...If I'd known he'd be dead within a few minutes, I probably wouldn't have smiled when he took my hand and led me toward the riverbank.
But then, how was I to know our secret was over..."
Rubens McCauley is burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication and running from too many years on the front line, he's a shipwreck; a washed-up cop from the old school, searching for the quiet life.
And for a while hes found it. Every night, when the sun sets over the ocean in the samll Victorian town of Jutt Rock, the brilliant wash of colour reflected on the shoreline is known as the Pink Tide, a picture-perfect respite. No crime. No stress. Happy days.
But the locals have another name for it, which bares its head late one Friday night when McCauley's nephew and his friend are brutally bashed while walking home from a party.
As his nephew clings to life in hospital and the other dies, the case makes instant headlines. Suddenly McCauley is back in the lime light, forced to abandon his plans of a new life and find the killer.
With the eyes of the nation watching over and his own health rapidly deteriorating, Its a case that will take McCauley to the very edge of breaking point, and test both his faith in the criminal justice system and in human decency itself.
"In a word, Chilling. This is no ordinary fiction..."
Herald Sun
"Crime novels don't get more topical than this... Henry knows the genre and he knows how to write..."
Australian Book Review
"A real testament expereince and life in the field..."
Sydney Morning Herald
"Complex, hard as nails, totally absorbing. Make no mistake, Jarad Henry is the real deal..."
JR Carroll Best Selling author of Cheaters & Blindside
"Henry has redefined "dangerous" and it lurks on the brooding Melbourne streets - full of gangsters, drug dealers and alley crawlers ...."
Crime Down Under.com
"Henry's rendition takes us on a journey to the very edge of darkness. Our sense of a familiar, comfortable locale is rapidly challenged. A promising new force in Australian crime fiction..."
Peter Lawrance - Convener of the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing.
"Henry gives us an insight into the Melbourne seen only by cops and the underbelly of the city . We have a fresh new voice in crime fiction."
Kirsty Brooks, Best selling author of The Millionaire Float
"Rubens McCauley & Cassie Withers are the most intriguing police duo since Kolla and Brock. Top-drawer crime fiction."
Joel Becker, Director Victorian Writers Centre
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