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Last resort / Quintin Jardine.

By: Series: Bob Skinner. 25 | Jardine, Quintin. Bob Skinner mystery ; 25Publication details: UK : Headline, 2015.Description: 390 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1472205634 (pbk.)
  • 9781472205636 (pbk.)
  • 9781472205629 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Last resort : justice goes over the edge
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6060.A67
Summary: After thirty years of service, former Chief Constable Bob Skinner faces the possible end of his police career, at its pinnacle. A quiet trip to Catalunya to contemplate his future soon takes on a different flavour when Skinner is approached by an old friend, media owner Xavier Aislado, with an unusual request. One of his business's brightest talents, Hector Sureda Roca, has vanished without a trace. Now it's up to Skinner to track him down. But as he conducts his search it soon becomes clear that another manhunt is also in progress, and that he himself is the target. While his daughter Alex fights that battle on the home front, his search for Sureda takes one sinister turn after another, until he is faced with the toughest question of all. Is natural justice sometimes the only answer?
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction - Crime JAR Skinner Bk.25 Available 059259
Total reserves: 0

Format: Regular print.

Expected date of publication: 201507.

After thirty years of service, former Chief Constable Bob Skinner faces the possible end of his police career, at its pinnacle. A quiet trip to Catalunya to contemplate his future soon takes on a different flavour when Skinner is approached by an old friend, media owner Xavier Aislado, with an unusual request. One of his business's brightest talents, Hector Sureda Roca, has vanished without a trace. Now it's up to Skinner to track him down. But as he conducts his search it soon becomes clear that another manhunt is also in progress, and that he himself is the target. While his daughter Alex fights that battle on the home front, his search for Sureda takes one sinister turn after another, until he is faced with the toughest question of all. Is natural justice sometimes the only answer?

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