Author | Peter Temple |
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Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | crime novel |
Publisher | Bantam, Australia |
Publication date | 1999 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 259 pp |
ISBN | 0-7338-0158-7 |
OCLC | 45151237 |
Preceded by | An Iron Rose |
Followed by | Black Tide |
Shooting Star (1999) is a Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by Australian author Peter Temple.[1]
"For Nicholas - with thanks for all the joy."
Frank Calder, an ex-soldier whose post-military career as a police hostage negotiator ended after he got into a physical altercation with a sadistic fellow officer, now works as a private mediator. Outwardly a hardened loner, on the inside, he nurtures demons from his military days and is plagued by constant self-doubt. When the novel opens, Frank has just taken a job with the very rich Carson family—they need Frank to negotiate with the kidnappers who abducted 15-year-old Anne Carson on her way home from school.[2]