BLACK ICE by Leah Giarratano

It can happen to any family.

Detective Sergeant Jill Jackson is working undercover in Sydney's murky drug world. Living in a run down Housing Commission flat and making unlikely friends Jill sees first hand what devastation the illegal drugs scene can wreak.

Jill's sister Cassie has a new boyfriend Christian Worthington. Like her, he is one of the beautiful people of Sydney, rich, good looking, great job, great car and seen in all the right places. He is a high flying lawyer doing pro bono work to keep a drug dealer out of gaol. He is also Cassie's supplier, keeping her supplied with cocaine and ice. When Cassie overdoses and is dumped at the hospital her life begins to spiral out of control.

Things start to go awry when these worlds collide and Jill and Cassie meet on opposite sides of the law. 

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STATE OF EMERGENCY by Sam Fisher

A high-octane action-packed novel that punches right to the heart of the Matthew Reilly market.

E-FORCE: Six gifted, super-fit, highly trained individuals
MISSION: Specialist rescue in times of global emergency

The Emergency Force team - including Marine Mark Harrison, Shuttle pilot Michaela Buchanan and Cyber genius Tom Erickson - employs some of the most advanced equipment on the planet: from Mach-10 jets to incredible cybersuits….

And they’ll need all that gadgetry for their first mission - to save the life of US Senator Kyle Foreman.

Foreman was giving a speech in LA when two bombs ripped through the Conference Centre. Miraculously Foreman survived - except now he's trapped inside, as fires rage and floors collapse.

But as E-Force plan their perilous route into the building, so too does The Dragon, the assassin who will let nothing stop his deadly mission…

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THE TRUE STORY OF BUTTERFISH by Nick Earls

Butterfish is Nick Earls better than his best.

When Annaliese Winter walks down Curtis Holland's front path, he's ill-prepared for a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl who's a confounding mixture of adult and child. After years travelling the world with his band, Butterfish, he's not used to having a neighbour at all.

So when Curtis receives an invitation to dinner from Annaliese's mother, Kate, he is surprised when he not only accepts but finds himself being drawn to this remarkably unremarkable family. Even to fifteen-year-old Mark who is at war with his own surging adolescence.

Curtis soon realises that with Kate divorced, Annaliese and Mark need a male role model in their lives, but it's hard for him to help when he's just starting to grow up himself and harder still when Annaliese begins to show an interest in him that is less than filial.

Filled with acute observation, humour and tenderness, Butterfish is Nick Earls at his very best.

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