Pike's Pyramid - Couverture souple

Tatlow, Michael

 
9780987607645: Pike's Pyramid

Synopsis

This crime thriller, based mainly in Tasmania, centers on Argo, a corrupt global network marketing corporation, and its outrageous underworld ally. Argo is laundering billions of heroin dollars but is tackled by heroic PI Blarney Pike. All seems lost when Argo frames Pike for murder and he is jailed, but with help from friends Pike counter-attacks. Pike s Pyramid reveals the clandestine inner workings of a particular US based network marketing organization, based on the author s own experiences - and, will generate great interest from the worlds three million marketers as well as those who enjoy reading crime/thriller novels. This is the first book in a series of 4 superb crime thrillers that take the reader to many parts of the world and feature hero and unique crime buster and family man, Blarney Pike, and his skilled friends, in the remote but extraordinary town of Stanley, in Tasmania.

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À propos de l?auteur

Forced to leave school in Tasmania aged 15 because of his fathers death, Michael Winston Tatlow worked trapping rabbits and snaring possums for their skins, then crewed a boat fishing for shark in the Southern Ocean. The teenage state surf swimming champion, performing alone, saved five people from drowning. After representing Tasmania in Sydney, Mike became a feature writer and book reviewer for Sydneys Sunday Telegraph; then the papers foreign correspondent in seven countries. Back in Sydney he was Sunday Telegraph News Editor and Acting Editor. He was Chief-of-Staff of the Daily Telegraph before becoming Pictorial Editor. After returning to Tasmania and as strategist for a top political party, then ABC Televisions senior journalist, Michael began writing books. Pikes Pyramid was his first of a series of five crime thrillers. Four of them are written but have not yet been published. Six of his other books have been published. He has a son and daughter and six grandchildren.

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