Taking Care of Business

✍ Scribed by Corris, Peter

• Book ID: 108545993
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 241 KB
• Series: Cliff Hardy 28
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781741152531

✦ Synopsis

A fast-paced and entertaining collection of stories featuring Australia's favourite PI, Cliff Hardy.

I was starting to get interested. As someone who thinks stockmarkets, futures trading and currency speculation ought to be illegal, I was aware that I was radically out of step with the times. I dimly grasped what Marriott was saying, enough to understand that it sounded like being allowed into the mint with a U-haul van.

Cliff Hardy is no financial genius. But in Taking Care of Business he pursues white collar crime with the same doggedness he applies to his more downmarket villains.

Hardy's tasks are many and his clients are from all walks of life. He is minder for Thomas Whitney, the highly strung whistle blower, whose company is siphoning money off through Vanuatu. He is hired by computer genius Charles Marriott, whose shady dot com partner wants control of the business and is letting nothing and no one get in his way. And ever keen for some spare cash...