Deep Water: Cliff Hardy 34 by Peter Corris (Epub)

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Stripped of his private detective licence and devastated by the murder of his partner Lily Truscott, Cliff Hardy travels to the US to help Lily’s brother’s tilt for a world boxing title. In San Diego he suffers a heart attack and undergoes a quadruple bypass. He meets nurse Margaret McKinley, an expatriate Australian who is concerned about the disappearance in Sydney of her father – renowned geologist Dr Henry McKinley.

Hardy undertakes to investigate in association with Hank Bachelor, his former associate who now runs his own agency. It turns out that McKinley had discovered a way to tap into the massive Sydney basin acquifer, a possible solution to the city’s water problems. Working with Margaret who visits Sydney, Bachelor, and his daughter, Megan, Hardy confronts an old enemy and contending forces bent on exploiting the discovery and prepared to kill for it.

Energised by the case and by his attachment to Margaret, Hardy obeys the strict rules for the restoration of his health – but in pursuing the truth and the malefactors, he makes his own rules.

User’s Reviews

From Publishers Weekly At the start of this uninspired entry in Australian author Corris’s long-running crime series featuring PI Cliff Hardy (Open File, etc.), Cliff wakes up after a serious heart attack in a San Diego hospital. Margaret McKinley, the good-looking Australian ex-pat nurse who aided in his recovery from a quadruple cardiac bypass, needs Cliff’s assistance: her father, Henry, a geologist employed by a large corporation, has disappeared from his Sydney home. Cliff is glad to help, though he’s lost his PI license. Back in Australia, Cliff finds that Henry’s office and darkroom have been ransacked and, more disturbingly, that the missing man’s seismologist friend, Terry Dart, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. The trail is as predictable as the burgeoning romance between Cliff and his client. Solid writing compensates only in part for a not particularly distinctive protagonist. (Nov.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From Booklist Cliff Hardy, the Australian private detective, figures a trip to the U.S. might bolster his spirits after the murder of his lover, not to mention the loss of his detective’s license. But he wasn’t counting on a heart attack followed by quadruple-bypass surgery. On the mend in an American hospital, he meets Margaret, an Australian nurse whose father, a noted geologist, has disappeared back home. So Cliff returns to Australia, where he teams up with his daughter, Megan, to find the missing man. He also finds that his growing attraction to Margaret restores some of the balance to his life. Corris, who began publishing the Cliff Hardy novels 30 years ago, did a smart thing awhile back when he took away his protagonist’s livelihood, shaking things up considerably. It’s interesting to watch the author playing with his character, showing how Cliff attempts to pull himself out of his professional and personal hole. The novel ends tentatively, and readers will wait anxiously to see what comes next. –David Pitt –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ Publisher’s weekly got it right – this is a fairly pedestrian contribution to a great series. There is no such thing as an entirely bad Cliff Hardy but this one feels a bit like it was phoned in to a deadline, or a word count. Nothing can keep Hardy down but he’s had so many setbacks his recoveries are becoming Lazarus-like. When Corris doesn’t quite know how to wind up a plot line he can always throw in a shooting with, yes, our faithful Cliff, as the victim. Again? And his new sidekicks (Hardy works better alone) – his daughter and her PI boyfriend don’t bring much colour or intrigue worth pursuing. Oh well, I’ll keep coming back – Open File was great, so I’m sure there is still steam in our much winded and wounded hero.

⭐ Great read, but I am biased I live in Sydney where much of the novel is set, so I was with the author on each step of the way . A good thriller and it was hard to put down -and it involves a subject that is global in its importance. The characters are very real, well portrayed and easy to appreciate the way they interact, with sufficient twists to keep you guessing till the end.

⭐ Not living in Sydney (or Australia) any more, I always enjoy being taken back home through the adventures of Cliff, and the extremely Australian prose and language of the author. Never fails to deliver.

⭐ well worth reading

⭐ Great yarn. Typical Cliff Hardy and Peter Corris. Very enjoyable

⭐ I think I must have read the entire Cliff Hardy series of some 40 books. They have all been great fun, although some more than others. “Deep Water” falls into that category of being one of Peter Corris’s weaker books. It’s still a good read. It’s still a rollicking story. It’s just that Corris has produced better books.“Deep Water” begins, unusually, in San Diego where Cliff is holidaying when is struck done with a heart attack. Hospitalisation follows together with a quadruple bypass. As Cliff is recuperating, he is visited by his daughter who has now joined what remains of the old investigations business back in Sydney. In addition, Cliff’s nurse, who happens also to be from Sydney, offers Cliff a job. Her father is missing back home. Cliff takes up the challenge once released from hospital.Back on the case, Cliff hooks up with Hank Bachelor who is now running the business. Together they pursue a variety of clues. Cliff progressively narrows down the leads although, along the way, he has a brief love interest as well as some seriously life threatening encounters.As I said at the outset, every Cliff Hardy novel is a fun read. This one is no exception. Nonetheless, Peter Corris seems to have been rushing to finish the book. The loose ends are tidied up in a less than convincing manner. All this is a shame. To the first time reader, stay patient. The larger series is well worth pursuing.

⭐ Found it a struggle to keep on reading to the disappointing conclusion. I was offended by the self confessed atheism of Cliff Hardy and his friends and their crude degradation of Christianity. Why introduce this at all? It is sure to cause many other Christian readers to turn away.There is also the use of obscene language including the f*** and c*** words in unnecessary context.I shall not be reading any more of Peter Corris.

⭐ Cliff Hardy never fails to keep me up at night

⭐ Good rolling read, a typical Peter Corris story, well constructed and presented to keep the reader involved.

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