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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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Follow Paul Cutler on his next adventure as he fights the cocaine gold rush.

Assuming his new identity as Paul O’Keefe, Paul is tasked with finding the supplier of a surge of Mexican cartel meth flooding Australian streets. Assigned to infiltrate a newly appointed security company at Fremantle Port, he discovers a clandestine world of off-the-books operations, and a business front that goes far beyond mere security. There’s a dangerous game afoot for who gets control of the port’s smuggling operations, and O’Keefe is caught in the crossfire.

A pulse-pounding thriller that takes a hard look at the Australian ‘cocaine gold rush’, where maritime crime meets the ruthless currents of the underworld.

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