![]() ![]() ![]() The premise is simple the day before he is due to be released from prison for his role in a 2004 armoured truck hijacking in which his two fellow hijackers and a security guard died, 33-year-old Audie Palmer escapes from prison. Robotham’s unvarnished style infuses the novel with an air of edgy desperation and a passion shared by protagonist and creator in a foreword, Robotham says the idea for the novel has been percolating for his entire writing career – during which he has published nine previous crime thrillers – but he needed time to do it justice. Populated as it is by broken lives filled with misfirings and sent off course by simple strokes of hard luck, Michael Robotham’s Life or Death might be difficultl for some to take pleasure in, but at its heart is the enduring love harboured by an incarcerated man, and the lengths to which he will go to right a decade-old wrong. ![]()
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