Crocodile Tears

<p><strong>The fifth thrilling instalment in Alan Carter's Cato Kwong crime series. </strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Part espionage thriller part police procedural <em>Crocodile Tears</em> shows powerful forces at home and abroad determined to keep their secrets buried. At any cost.</p>