Deal Me Out - Cliff Hardy, Bk 8 Author:Peter Corris Portrait of a PI — Name: Cliff Hardy — Turf: The rowdy pubs and sleepy suburbs of Sydney Australia — Greatest Strength: Helping friends in trouble — Worst Weakness: Helping friends in trouble — HE'S A SUCKER FOR A SOB STORY, AND ONE OF HIS PALS HAS... more » A HEARTBREAKER
Hardy's never seen Terry Reeves so down. The owner of Bargain Renta Car, Reeves is facing financial ruin after five of his fleet are stolen. Hardy smells organized crime - the game's too slick to be run by amateurs. But there's a bigger shock in store: one of the car thieves, immortalized on videotape, is none other than Bill Mountain, A TV writer and erstwhile drinking buddy of Cliff's.
Mountain's the only lead Hardy's got., and he follow him into the bowels of the perverse drug-pervaded world of Sydney's sickest citizens. What he sees there makes even the hard-boiled Hardy want out of the game - before he gets sucked in forever.« less