Gun Control (Cliff Hardy Book 40) by Peter Corris (Epub)

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In the 40th Cliff Hardy book, Hardy plays a cool hand as a decades-old crime resurfaces and old scores are settled

Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops—former members of the Gun Control Unit—outlaw bikers, and honest police trying to quietly clean the stables. Two more murders raise the stakes, and relationships are stretched to breaking point. Hardy hooks up with a determined policewoman and forms an unlikely alliance with a charismatic biker chief. Uncovering the tangled conspiracy behind the murders takes Hardy to the Blue Mountains and Camden, to plush legal chambers, and a confrontation in an inner-west park—all against the roar of 750 cc engines.

User’s Reviews

Peter Corris is known as the godfather of Australian crime fiction and is the author of the Cliff Hardy series. –This text refers to the audioCD edition. Review “You won’t find too many mystery series that run thuis long with such consistently high quality.” —Booklist”Torn Apart is a fine entertainment, and Corris, the ‘Godfather of Australian crime fiction,’ is a splendid storyteller. . . Corris belongs on the short lists of hard-boiled-crime fans who like Down Under settings.” —Booklist on Torn Apart”Make no mistake, this is very good stuff indeed. . . . [An] amazing series.” —Mystery Scene magazine –This text refers to the paperback 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:

⭐ I admit to being a huge fan of Peter Corris and his wonderful long run series about Cliff Hardy. It is a rare day when I fail to enjoy one of these books. “Gun Control” is no exception.“Gun Control” is the fortieth book in the Cliff Hardy series. Cliff is tasked by an apparently distressed father to locate the person who provided his son with the weapon used in his suicide. The ostensible task, however, soon morphs into something much larger. Suicide becomes murder. Cliff develops deep connections with a Sydney bikie gang and is fighting with corrupt elements of the NSW police force. And, somewhere along the way, Cliff finds a new love interest. All in a day’s work for Cliff.Peter Corris never fails to produce a fun and rollicking read. “Gun Control” is no exception to this rule. The locations are always in and around Sydney. They are always brilliantly constructed. I have even taken to using Google Maps Street View just to check on the accuracy of the Corris technique. He is always right on the money. Sydney is the backdrop against which the book is written.I strongly recommend “Gun Control” to any reader of private eye novels. I also recommend it to anyone with an interest or love of Sydney. Corris is masterful story teller.

⭐ Corris is one of the very best of the late 20th century private eye novelists, not appreciated as much as he ought to be in the U.S. (He’s Australian.). There’s a depth of observation here that is extremely sharp and extremely rare.

⭐ Engaging crime story set in Sydney Australia featuring an ageing but charismatic private detectiveBelievable characters set in a believable storyAcute observations about people and placesSuccinct flowing style of writingOne of a series of Cliff Hardy novels that appear about once a yearI hope Peter Corris keeps on writing

⭐ Always enjoyed the well written & well plotted Peter Corris books. No undue padding. Straight to the story. I truly believe that he is one of our very best crime writers. It will be sad when Peter retires. He will be greatly missed

⭐ Brilliant read, Great story

⭐ OK if you ignore the sound of Corris scratching the barrel bottom

⭐ Wonderful break from the world of Trump, politics and the general mayhem of day to day in the 21st century.

⭐ A pot-boiler, written for the money not for the satisfaction of literary merit. Little description of the streets of Sydney to capture the mood of the city. Corris might read a little more of Simenon’s Maigret novels. There was also a lack of mystery or suspense. Corris is a cle3ver writer and a master of his plot, but can do better.JHF

⭐ predictable guff

⭐ The 40th book in the Cliff Hardy series, GUN CONTROL takes on a very current issue in the style that we’ve all come to expect from Peter Corris. It’s worth taking a moment to consider that 40 book history. When Cliff Hardy first made an appearance on the Australian landscape (THE DYING TRADE, 1982), Crime Fiction had been working prolifically in the pulp fiction days (Carter Brown etc) for a very long time. Hardy, as a hard-boiled, quietly spoken, high action, take no crap from anybody type PI might have felt like a rather American “type”. But Hardy was then, and has always been very Australian.Of course, Cliff’s also been a bit “suspiciously Sydney” for those of us in the outlying wilderness, but for many the first glimpse of the strength of these books would have been when Bryan Brown starred in the 1985 movie THE EMPTY BEACH (and personally I’ve never really been able to get Brown out of my mind when I’m reading one of these books). Fans of these books have always been acutely aware that we “don’t think about age”, after all Hardy is a super-hero type despite serving in the Army during the Malayan Emergency which would make him 80 something or other.The beauty of the non-aging, always tough, never quite with his act together Hardy is that whenever he tackles a current day issue, it works. He combines a sense of world-weariness with a strong desire for righting wrongs, of fairness and decency that is attractively old-fashioned, exactly what you’d expect from Cliff Hardy. As is that slight suspicion that it doesn’t matter what life chucks his way, been there, done it. Unsurprised and certainly unimpressed. And even though this reader was raised a Holden girl through and through, there’s this thing that the man has for aging Fords. Of course he drives an aging Ford. Of course it’s still going. Of course Hardy’s still going.In GUN CONTROL he’s deep in the world of illicit guns, dodgy motorcycle gangs and corrupt cops. Subject matter straight from the front page of the papers – in Sydney and other major cities in Australia. Hardy uses his ability to prod sleeping monsters, and poke his nose in where it’s most definitely not wanted to great effect, whilst simultaneously pairing up with a very unlikely bikie-boss and a very determined policewoman. The idea of bikie’s cornering dodgy blokes on bridges in Sydney parks, and then promptly getting into a game of chase and throw with his dog was a particularly delightful moment.As always with these books, Corris takes Hardy to the crux of the problem, puts him in some jeopardy, moves some baddies around on the board, and drags Hardy, sometimes slightly bruised, out the other end in a manner beautifully economical with words, never lacking atmosphere. Of course there’s also no pretence that we’re looking for a reason or an explanation for the ills of the world. Rather it’s a window on a lifestyle, a glimpse into a way of being, not as most of us would ever know it. GUN CONTROL’s another gem of a book in this series and when it comes to your lone wolf PI, there’s nobody quite like Cliff Hardy. No matter how old he is.[…]

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