Master’s Mates: Cliff Hardy 26 by Peter Corris (Epub)

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When rich, attractive Lorraine Master hires Cliff Hardy to investigate the circumstances surrounding her husband’s conviction for smuggling heroin from New Caledonia, Hardy welcomes the assignment. A week on generous expenses sniffing about under a tropical sky, escape from a cold, dry spell in Sydney just the job. But Stewart Master’s mates in Noumea prove to be a difficult and dangerous bunch.

The danger follows Hardy back to Sydney where he and his client become targets when an intricate conspiracy goes seriously wrong. Hardy deals with a tricky lawyer, a man on the run and Sydney’s most corrupt ex-cop. He has allies as well, but in the end his survival will depend on his own guts, experience and savvy.

Peter Corris’s world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia’s favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy’s legions of fans will relish another pacy adventure, branching further afield than his traditional mean streets territory to the steamy island paradise of French New Caledonia.

‘There has been no more efficient, entertaining and amusing writer of detective thrillers in Australia than Peter Corris.’ – The Age

User’s Reviews

From Booklist After a couple of decades, your typical mystery series tends to get a little stale. But there are exceptions: Westlake’s Dortmunder novels (35 years), McBain’s 87th Precinct series (49 years), and Corris’ Cliff Hardy series, which is now at the quarter-century mark and still going strong. Unlike the oft-reprinted novels of Westlake and McBain, however, Australian Corris’ work is not widely available in the U.S. The publication of this representative Hardy novel should help change that. In Master’s Mates, Hardy is hired by a beautiful woman to look into her husband’s heroin-smuggling conviction. He uncovers a nasty little conspiracy that threatens his own life, but as usual he has the guts to get himself out of the scrape. The Hardy series doesn’t depend on snazzy prose, flashy characters, and stunning plot twists. Rather, Corris sticks to basics–a likable lead, a solid mystery, plenty of action and humor–and keeps grinding them out. This series could go on another quarter century, easy. David PittCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review “Breezy but focused prose, a Miami Vice-like atmosphere, and an attractive hero will appeal to hard-boiled fans.” —Library Journal –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:

⭐ I read this novel in 2 days & it was a solid entertaining thriller. I do like that there is some violence but much less than in many (most) PI stories, esp those set in the USA. Always interesting when a gun is seen as a major big deal in a scene & most people do not have one. Also makes the author work harder to create tension & figure out how to end most crooked meetings with no shoot outs. And when there IS gunplay/a shooting it has major impact & isn;t thought of as just another killing. The plot here was intricate but realistic & the bad guys aren’t all bad & the good guys aren’t all good.Like real life. But apparently “dirty cops” are universal. Alas! This was what I would call an easy read but one with heart & brains so easy = quality here. I have ordered a few more Peter Corris/Cliff Hardy novels & hope they are as good as Master’s Mates.

⭐ I’ve read about a half dozen, and this was probably my least favorite. Nobody he was working for drummed up any sympathy from me. But hey, it’s Cliff Hardy, and you’re still hanging on till the end till he wraps things up.

⭐ About 20% into this book I felt like I needed to read it all as soon as I could. I enjoyed the characters. They are all recognisable, realistic and interesting. The events of the story sound like things that happen in SYdney and having lived in Sydney many years the descriptions of places are very accurate. The writing is great quality and I could picture each scene. The Cliff Hardy character is consistent between novels and his actions are realistic within his tendancy to take risks.

⭐ Maybe because I am an Australian I found it a tad slow and predictable.This is a lazy plot

⭐ Here in America we have our Travis McGees, our Spensers, our Doc Fords, our Lew Archers, our Elvis Coles. In Australia they have Cliff Hardy. If you love hardboiled first-person PI yarns, as I do, you’re going to love Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy. Corris has written almost 40 Hardy novels and a number of short stories. Some of them were published in the US in the 80s and 90s, but are now out of print. Happily, Amazon has many of them available through 3rd party merchants. Master’s Mates is as good a place to start as any. The Coast Road is another good one. Give ’em a try. If you do, I’m pretty sure you’ll come back for more Cliff Hardy.

⭐ I enjoyed this Cliff Hardy novel. I have now read three or four of Peter Corris’s Cliff Hardy books and will read more. So far they have all been easy to pick up and easy to read and enjoyable.They are very Australian. They are also the classic old struggling PI getting caught up in all sorts of wild criminal activity novels. If you want police procedurals forget it. This is one man struggling to understand what is going on, and survive it.As the previous reviewer said if you like the classic PI novel you will enjoy the Cliff Hardy books. I read his “Lugano” first but it’s not listed here on Kindle.

⭐ Cliff Hardy crime stories take you around Sydney and this one to New Caledonia giving a real picture of the place. I think best crime fiction does that. Enjoyable

⭐ Corris can do no wrong. Hardy, on the other hand… ;)Another enjoyable tale featuring seedy, seamy, slutty Sydney, the oh-so-common denominator in the majority of the Hardy tales.”…Her beauty and her terror…”Thanks, Pete. Again.

⭐ Haven’t read Peter Corris for many years and so had forgotten how much fun a Cliff Hardy story could be. Always interesting, plausible stories that really reflect the feel and workings of Sydney. And the laid-back, laconic observations are handled nicely without being forced.

⭐ Peter Corris keeps Cliff Hardy at the top of his career even though Cliff himself feels a bit dented. A good read by this iconic Australian about his iconic Australian PI.

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