Pink Tide
(2012)(The third book in the Det Sgt Rubens McCauley Thriller series)
A novel by Jarad Henry
PINK TIDE - SYNOPSIS
“…If I’d known he’d be dead in a few minutes, I wouldn’t have followed him down to the riverbank. But then, how was I to know our secret was over…”
Pink Tide is the third in the Rubens McCauley trilogy. After a series of harrowing and life changing cases in St Kilda (Head Shot & Blood Sunset), McCauley is now completely burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication and running from too many years on the front line, he’s a shipwreck; a washed-up cop from the old school, wondering the shores of Jutt Rock, a small town on Victoria’s south western coast line, searching for the quiet life. And for a while he’s found it. Every day, as the sun sits over the ocean, the brilliant wash of colour reflected on the shoreline is known as the Pink Tide, a picture-perfect respite. No crime. No stress.
But the Pink Tide has another meaning, one which bares its ugly head late one Friday night when McCauley’s nephew and his mate are brutally bashed while walking home from a party together. As one victim dies and his nephew clings to life in hospital, McCauley is forced to abandon his plans of a new life and find the attackers.
With the eyes of the nation watching and his own health rapidly deteriorating, McCauley is joined by close friend Cassie Withers, and together they battle it out with the local community and many of their own colleagues, even McCauley’s own family. It’s a turning point in his life that takes him to the very edge of breaking point, and tests both his faith in the criminal justice system and in human decency itself.
Genre: Mystery
“…If I’d known he’d be dead in a few minutes, I wouldn’t have followed him down to the riverbank. But then, how was I to know our secret was over…”
Pink Tide is the third in the Rubens McCauley trilogy. After a series of harrowing and life changing cases in St Kilda (Head Shot & Blood Sunset), McCauley is now completely burnt out and on the edge. Addicted to prescription medication and running from too many years on the front line, he’s a shipwreck; a washed-up cop from the old school, wondering the shores of Jutt Rock, a small town on Victoria’s south western coast line, searching for the quiet life. And for a while he’s found it. Every day, as the sun sits over the ocean, the brilliant wash of colour reflected on the shoreline is known as the Pink Tide, a picture-perfect respite. No crime. No stress.
But the Pink Tide has another meaning, one which bares its ugly head late one Friday night when McCauley’s nephew and his mate are brutally bashed while walking home from a party together. As one victim dies and his nephew clings to life in hospital, McCauley is forced to abandon his plans of a new life and find the attackers.
With the eyes of the nation watching and his own health rapidly deteriorating, McCauley is joined by close friend Cassie Withers, and together they battle it out with the local community and many of their own colleagues, even McCauley’s own family. It’s a turning point in his life that takes him to the very edge of breaking point, and tests both his faith in the criminal justice system and in human decency itself.
Genre: Mystery
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