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Five people lie dead on the floor of a fortified Johannesburg mansion. In his hands, the solitary survivor holds his death warrant. Powerful men and powerful nations will kill to keep the videotape now in Con Niemand's grasp buried. The tape and the man must be erased.

John Anselm heeft het zwaar voor de kiezen. Na vele bewogen jaren als oorlogsjournalist in Beirut, woont hij weer thuis in Duitsland: getraumatiseerd en overspannen. Ook laat zijn geheugen hem steeds vaker in de steek en zijn familiegeschiedenis achtervolgt hem meer dan hem lief is. Toch raakt hij weer in het gevaarlijke wereldje terecht als hij via zijn werk een ex-huurmoordenaar moet opsporen. Opnieuw zit hij vast in een benarde situatie vol geweld, bedrog en gevaar.

In ‘Zwart tij’ volg je advocaat en detective Jack Irish in zijn onderzoek om de zoon van Des Connors te traceren. Nadat zoon Gary 60.000 dollar van zijn vader had geleend, was hij plotseling van de aardbodem verdwenen. Tijdens de zoektocht stuit Jack al snel op de invloedrijke miljonair Steven Levesque. Jack vertrouwt hem niet en zijn gevoel wordt bevestigd als hij een schokkende ontdekking doet. Wat heeft Gary met deze steenrijke man te maken en komt Jack er zelf zonder kleerscheuren af? ‘Zwart tij’ is de opvolger van ‘Kwade schulden’ in de Jack Irish reeks.

Jack Irish - lawyer, gambler and people finder - is hunting down the villains who hijacked the winnings from his latest betting coup when he is hired by a mystery client to find missing barman Robbie Colbourne. But Robbie turns up dead of a drug overdose.

Meet Jack Irish, criminal lawyer, debt collector, football lover, turf watcher, trainee cabinetmaker, and the best Australian crime character we've seen in years. When 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.

John Anselm's a former Beirut hostage; a war correspondent who went to one war too many. A burnt-out case, he's working for a semi-legal Hamburg surveillance firm and trying to come to terms with his past. Then, into his life comes Con Niemand, ex-mercenary and professional survivor. Niemand has stumbled across evidence of a terrible secret and now he's on the run. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal and death.

Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honor and deceit. And it is about truth.

Jack Irish has no shortage of friends: jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall.So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help in the matter of a missing son, Jack is happy to lend a hand. But sometimes prodigal sons go missing for a reason.