{"product_id":"9781921961564","title":"Bad Debts (Jack Irish Series #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and one of the best crime characters ever created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jack receives a puzzling message from a jailed ex-client he's too deep in misery over Fitzroy's latest loss to take much notice. Next thing Jack knows, the ex-client's dead and he's been drawn into a life-threatening investigation involving high-level corruption, dark sexual secrets, shonky property deals, and murder. With hitmen after him, shady ex-policemen at every turn, and the body count rising, Jack needs to find out what's going on - and fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The first novel in the iconic Jack Irish series, \u003ci\u003eBad Debts\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1996 and won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. Guy Pearce stars as Jack Irish in the ABC telemovies based on the series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Temple\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries. \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Shore\u003c\/i\u003e won the UK's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and \u003ci\u003eTruth\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer has won an award of this calibre anywhere in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the world's finest crime writers.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Having read the new novels of Michael Connelly and Martin Cruz Smith, I have to say that Temple belongs in their company. Australia is a long way off, but this bloke is world-class.' \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eBad Debts\u003c\/i\u003e is wonderful, quintessentially Australian stuff, full of authentic, diehard types, old culture cops, backstreet humour and inner-city dialogue you can overhear in the bars of certain hotels, the ones with framed pictures of horses on the walls. it is the genuine article and an absolute pearler of a read.' \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Like his characters, Temple has a spare, funny delivery, and a sharp eye for a target...Temple writes with the urgency of someone who wants to disrupt an official investigation, and his story is kept up like taut wire. Brothers and sisters in crime, worship at the Temple.' \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Temple can be as tough as nails, but also displays a wickedly droll sense of humour which, like the work of, say, the American writer Joe R. Lansdale, frequently has the reader holding his sides with laughter even while immersed in some particularly unpleasant scenario...With \u003ci\u003eBad Debts\u003c\/i\u003e Temple has created a world-class novel.' \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171131900144,"sku":"9781921961564","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921961564_p0.jpg?v=1763632006","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921961564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}