Prisoner Lee Southern has two jobs: to protect the life of a disgraced former premier from an unknown assassin and to get out alive.

Private Investigator Lee Southern is looking for a murderer in a prison full of killers. When an assassination attempt in a prison cell winds up with the wrong man dead, Lee Southern is hired to protect the real target.Plt;brPgt; Plt;brPgt;The millennium is just weeks away and rumours of a complete technological meltdown have guards and prisoners on edge.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;As violence simmers, tensions ignite, and LeeP#8217;s hopes of a quick mission disintegrate.Plt;brPgt; Going undercover in a prison full of killers is his most dangerous assignment yet.

Details

ISBN13: 9781760996796
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 272
Edition:
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2026
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Publication City, Country: North Fremantle, WA, Australia
Dimensions (cm): 23.3(H)x15.3(L)x2.2(W)
Weight (gm):

Author Biography

David Whish-Wilson is the author of twelve novels and three creative non-fiction books. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. At eighteen, he left Australia to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, street seller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug-trial guinea pig.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with his partner and three kids, and teaches creative writing at Curtin University.

Reviews

'David Whish-Wilson's tough noir tales are among the best crime fiction being produced in Australia today.' Canberra Weekly