Get Even by Peter Corris

Luke Dunlop #3

by Peter Corris

The Witness Protection Unit’s Luke Dunlop has one job - to make people disappear. And that’s not easy when there’s no margin for error and each case is a matter of life and death. Ex-cop David Scanlon is about to deliver red-hot evidence about his former colleagues to the Sate Counter Corruption Authority. Dunlop has to make sure no-one gets to Scanlon first. When Scanlon’s sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing from the safe house, Dunlop’s problems are just beginning... “Corris’s portrayals of Australian crime stand out as uniquely forceful, hard-driven, compassionate.” James Ellroy

Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Peter Corris was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. His first novel was published in 1980. Corris is credited with reviving the fully-fledged Australian crime novel with local settings and reference points and with a series character firmly rooted in Australian culture, Sydney PI Cliff Hardy. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing".

He won the Lifetime Achievement award at the Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing in 1999 and was shortlisted for best novel in 2006 for Saving Billy and in 2007 for The Undertow.

Reviews

[Marianne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Get Even is the 3rd in the Luke Dunlop series by Peter Corris. Once again, ex-cop and Witness Protection Unit officer Luke Dunlop is on the job. This time the subject is another ex-cop, David Scanlon, corrupt and about to turn whistle-blower on some of his Police colleagues and publishing mogul Thomas Kippax. Luke’s task is to keep David and his wife, Lucy, and 16-year-old daughter, Mirabelle, safe until David can testify to the State Counter Corruption Authority, then organise identity change, re-documentation and relocation for them. Luke’s problems start in earnest when Mirabelle goes missing from the Safe House. Corris gives us a great plot, believable characters and authentic dialogue. As always, his descriptions of police procedure and witness protection are very realistic. Police corruption forms a major part of the story: I do hope there’s at least a few cops left in NSW who aren’t. This novel has more golf than I’d like, quite a bit of sex, violence, some humour and several deaths, not all of them murders. I wonder if there will more Luke Dunlop adventures.