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Crocodile Tears

Cato Kwong, Book 5

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Crocodile Tears

By: Alan Carter
Narrated by: John Stretton
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Detective Philip ‘Cato' Kwong is investigating the death of a retiree found hacked to pieces in his suburban Perth home. The trail leads to Timor-Leste, with its recent blood-soaked history. There, he reunites with an old frenemy, the spook Rory Driscoll who, in Cato's experience, has always occupied a hazy moral terrain.

Resourceful, multilingual, and hard as nails, Rory has been Canberra's go-to guy when things get sticky in the Asia-Pacific. Now Rory wants out. But first he's needed to chaperone a motley group of whistleblowers with a price on their heads. And there's one on his, too.

‘A first-rate thriller and one of the year's best books.' CANBERRA WEEKLY

‘It is an unputdownable thriller from one of an award-winning Australian crime author.' BOFFINS BOOKS

©2021 Alan Carter (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense
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Many younger Australians know nothing of Australia's involvement in Timor. But those who do remember uncomfortably. Thank you Alan Carter for the reminder.
A really good book to listen to starring our anti-hero Cato. I thoroughly enjoyed the mixture of police and spooks, with lots of action in Western Australia. The narrator even got most most of the WA references right!

Overlooked history

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This is a good story, believable characters, twists and turns, suspense and action. And a slice of our little known history.

But the reading is dreadful, i was prepared to abandon it until inctreased the soeed to 1.2.
without the speed increase it is slow, ponderous, toneless, contains multiple mispronunciation and a weird tempo with the emphasis in all the wrong places.

increase the speed to enjoy this good book

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