O'Keefe by David Whish Wilson

In O’Keefe, Paul Cutler has changed his name, but not his instincts. Working undercover in the freight yards and docks of Fremantle, he’s closing in on a cartel shifting meth through shipping containers. As the job deepens, O’Keefe finds himself caught between loyalty and survival, the sea wind carrying more than salt.

David Whish-Wilson turns the grit of real policing into lean, tense storytelling. The prose is spare, the sense of place exact. What begins as a procedural winds into a reckoning on corruption and identity. Tropes: double life, justice and compromise.

Whish-Wilson brings Australian hard-boiled fiction into the present tense. It is tense, humane and dry-eyed. Set around Fremantle Port, O’Keefe expands his world of corruption, water, and consequence with the same eye for ordinary courage that marks the author’s best work.

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