Shooting Star

Resumen del libro

Anne Carson - fifteen, beautiful, and wayward - is abducted. Her rich family has closed ranks and summoned Frank Calder, ex-soldier and sacked police hostage negotiator. They want him to deliver the ransom money to the kidnappers.

Frank wants them to call in the law, but the family refuses, since police bungling nearly cost the life of another Carson child kidnapped years before. But are the two kidnappings connected? And is greed the motivation? Revenge? Or could it be something else? To find out, Frank Calder must go beyond his brief. As Frank feverishly searches for suspects in the web of Carson family businesses and deals, marriages and indiscretions, rivalries and intrigues, he knows that if his instincts are wrong, the girl will surely die.

Biografía del autor

Peter Temple (Sudáfrica, 1946) es un conocido novelista australiano de origen sudafricano. Periodista de profesión, a mediados de los años noventa decidió dedicarse a su auténtica vocación: la literatura. En 1996 inició la serie literaria protagonizada por el detective Jack Irish, que hasta la fecha cuenta con cuatro títulos y con dos exitosas adaptaciones para la televisión. Ha recibido en Australia una multitud de premios: el Colin Roderick, el Australian Book Publishers' Award y, hasta en cinco ocasiones, el Ned Kelly. Ha sido, además, el primer escritor australiano que ha recibido el Gold Dagger, concedido por la Crime Writers' Association británica.