Isbn: 9781925640939 - the greater good (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 375 pages. cover worn, corner scuffed, some staining bottom edge of a few pagesSET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly''s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth - and expose a deadly enemy. There''s nothing more dangerous than a man who can fall no further . ''Ayliffe delivers a taut, nail-biting page-turner, stam ping his mark on the modern day Australian thriller.'' Better Reading He had never killed anyone who hadn''t deserved it. Th e means always justified the end. He didn''t need forgiveness. He needed justifi cation. The greater good. Battered war correspondent John Bailey is a man living on the edge. He''s haunted by nightmares of being kidnap ped and tortured in Iraq and he''s drinking too much to drown the memories. As h e battles to get his life back together, a story breaks that will force him back into the spotlight - and into the crosshairs of a deadly international player. When a beautiful prostitute is found murdered in her luxury a partment, Bailey is ordered to cover the story by The Journal''s editor a nd his old friend, Gerald Summers, because he can''t trust anyone else. One of the victim''s clients, a key advisor to the Defence Minister, is chief suspect in her murder and he''s on the run. When he contacts Bailey, cl aiming to have information that will bring down the government, the stakes becom e deadly. To complicate matters, the investigating police detective is the woman Bailey walked out on a decade ago. When a ruthless CIA fixer turns up, followed by a murderous Chinese agent hot on his trail, Bailey realis es he has stumbled onto the story of a lifetime - one that he may not live to te.…