Shooting Star |
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| Author:
| Temple, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921145-83-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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'Mediation,' Vella said thoughtfully, a frown on his long face. 'Get someone to hold them down, hit them with a spade.' 'Precisely the attitude that drove me into civilian life,' I said. 'You spend many hours trying to convince deranged people that no harm will come to them. Eventually, they believe you. Then your colleagues kill them.'
Frank Calder's career as a police negotiator is over and his new calling in mediation is looking shaky when property tycoon Pat...
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'Mediation,' Vella said thoughtfully, a frown on his long face. 'Get someone to hold them down, hit them with a spade.' 'Precisely the attitude that drove me into civilian life,' I said. 'You spend many hours trying to convince deranged people that no harm will come to them. Eventually, they believe you. Then your colleagues kill them.'
Frank Calder's career as a police negotiator is over and his new calling in mediation is looking shaky when property tycoon Pat Carson calls him in. Carson's grand-daughter has been kidnapped and he needs a go-between. No police-because this is not the first kidnapping in the Carson family, and hard lessons have been learned. But are the two events connected? And is there a motivation other than ransom at work? A young girl's life hangs in the balance and Frank needs information. But that can be hard to come by when money gets tangled up with secrets.