| A young woman is murdered by a snip-er s bullet in a Sydney apartment bnild-ing. The killing is apparently withoutmotive, until it is discovered that the fiatis owned by Boru O Brien, a wealthybusinessman with underworld con-nections-and connections of anotherkind with the Prime Minister s wife. Thegunman seems to have mistaken MardiJack s shadowy silhouette against the window for Boru O Brien s. Twenty-three years before, he and Scobie Malone had been cadets together at the police academy. When Jim Kno- ble, another of their classmates, meets his death via a high-velocity bullet, Malone sees a pattern. Is there a hit list, with Scobie s name on it? And who is the assassin? Fearing for his family s safety and forced into hiding with O Brien, Scobie Malone faces one of the toughest assign- ments of his career. The psychopathic killer must be unmasked, tracked down, and stopped--before his long-nurtured paranoia leads him to kill again. Told with Cleary s mastery of sus- pense and pacing and his inimitable brand of Australian humor, Murder Song is a compelling cat-and-mouse game of killer and victim. Using Scobie Malone, a decent cop in a dirty world, as a lens through which to examine the dark side of Australian society, Jon Cleary has written another first-class novel of excitement and suspense. |
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