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Item Details
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TRUTH
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| By: |
Peter Temple |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1849161534 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781849161534 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
7 January, 2010 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
A teenage prostitute is found with her neck broken in an apartment in a wealthy area, three men are found tortured and murdered... Head of Homicide Stephen Villani faces the moral decline of a society and of himself. |
| Synopsis: |
Peter Temple moves into the territory of The Bonfire of the Vanities and JM Coetzee's Disgrace with a masterpiece of modern fiction. A teenage prostitute is found with her neck broken in a bathroom in an apartment in The Prosilio, a new playground for the very rich. Despite the ultra sophisticated security, all systems crashed, the management is hand in glove with high ups in government and Stephen Villani, Head of Homicide, isn't getting much cooperation. Three men are found murdered in a garage, two of them so brutally tortured that it goes beyond the usual low-life revenge story. The suspects are then tipped off and die in a car accident, escaping from Villani. The public and populist politicians are baying for the police to take the blame for violent lawlessness and corruption. In this heartbreaking, nerve-wracking novel, Temple lays bare the soul of a man, Villani, as he faces the moral decline of a society and himself. Incapable of constancy as a father and a husband, damaged as a son and true only to his job and the confrontational stance he knows best, he seems unable to intervene while his teenage daughter runs with drug dealers.And while politicians and businessmen plot to make more money and buy people and their silence, the fires are coming closer from the outback to inhabited country, including where Villani's father lives. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Quercus Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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