The pain seemed to dissolve. Cold and rough tarmac against the face, chill wind down here at ground level, smell of French perfume on my shirt, delicious. I registered that but all I felt was sad. This is a stupid way to go, I thought. Careless. When Mac Faraday's best friend is found hanging, the a
An Iron Rose
โ Scribed by Temple, Peter
- Book ID
- 109291305
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1920885501
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โฆ Synopsis
'When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.' A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend Ned Lowey is found hanged, Mac - who has learned the hard way never to accept things at face value - isn't convinced he committed suicide and starts asking questions. Why did Ned keep press cuttings about the skeleton of a girl found in an old mine shaft? What was he doing at Kinross Hall, the local detention centre for juvenile girls? Who was the beaten girl found naked beside a lonely road? As Mac's search for answers pushes deeper into the past, it resurrects the terrifying spectre of what he calls his 'old life', forcing him to turn to long-discarded skills not only to discover why his best friend died, but also to save his own life.
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Cover Page; About the Author; About the Introducer / Also by; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction by Les Carlyon; An Iron Rose; Dedication; Text Classics.;Peter Temple is one of the world's great crime writers. In this enthralling novel, he tells the story of a man who has left a
'When men in police uniforms came to execute me on the roadside, beside dark fields, it was a definite sign that my new life was over.' A regular at the local pub, a mainstay of the footy team, Mac Faraday is a man with a past living the quiet life of a country blacksmith. But when his best friend N