Crocodile Tears: Australian crime fiction with an unexpected twist

By Alan Carter and Alan Carter

The fifth thrilling instalment in Alan Carter's Cato Kwong crime series.

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.

Part espionage thriller, part police procedural, Crocodile Tears shows powerful forces, at home and abroad, determined to keep their secrets buried. At any cost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925816575
• ISBN13: 9781925816570
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Fremantle Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"