GUN CONTROL

Cliff 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, two more murders raise the stakes and relationships are stretched to breaking point. Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops, (former members of the Gun Control Unit), outlaw bikies and honest police trying to quietly clean the stables; he hooks up with a determined policewoman and forms an unlikely alliance with a charismatic bikie 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 750cc engines. PETER CORRIS has been writing his best selling Cliff Hardy detective stories for thirty years. He's written many other books, including a very successful 'as- told-to' autobiography of Fred Hollows, and a collection of short stories about golf.