Legacy [electronic resource]
Hammer, Chris2025
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Martin Scarsden flees an assassination attempt but lands in even more trouble with a deadly family feud leaving him at death's door in Chris Hammer's next blockbuster crime novel. Martin Scarsden is on the run. Will the desert save him – or bury him? The sound hits them, a shock wave ... glass smashing ... Somewhere a woman screams. A second explosion, Martin looks towards the hall, what's left of it, flames roaring and smoke pouring skywards. Someone is targeting Martin Scarsden. They bomb his book launch and shoot up his hometown. Fleeing for his life, he learns that nowhere is safe, not even the outback. The killers are closing in and it's all he can do to survive. But who wants to kill him and why? Can he discover their deadly motives and turn the tables? In a dramatic finale, he finds his fate linked to the disgraced ex-wife of a football legend, a fugitive wanted for a decades-old murder and two nineteenth century explorers from a legendary expedition. Martin Scarsden's most perilous, challenging and intriguing assignment yet.
Main title:
Legacy [electronic resource] / Chris Hammer
Author:
Hammer, Chris, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Allen & Unwin, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Martin Scarsden
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian crime fiction author. His first book, Scrublands, was an instant #1 bestseller upon publication in 2018. It won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger and was shortlisted for awards in Australia and the United States. Scrublands has been sold into translation in several foreign languages. Chris's follow-up books - Silver (2019), Trust (2020), Treasure & Dirt (2021), The Tilt (2022) and The Seven (2023) and The Valley (2024) - are also bestsellers and all have been shortlisted for major literary prizes. Legacy is his eighth novel. The Tilt (published as Dead Man's Creek in the UK) was named The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year for 2023. Scrublands has been adapted for television, screening globally, and a second series based on Silver will screen in 2025. Before turning to fiction, Chris was a journalist for more than thirty years. He has written two non-fiction books The River (2010) and The Coast (2012). He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Charles Sturt University and a master's degree in international relations from the Australian National University.
ISBN:
9781761507359
Language:
English
BRN:
3147002
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