Better Reading Preview: O’Keefe by David Whish-Wilson

Better Reading Preview: O’Keefe by David Whish-Wilson

Follow Paul Cutler on his next adventure as he fights the cocaine gold rush.

Assuming his new identity as Paul O’Keefe, Paul is tasked with finding the supplier of a surge of Mexican cartel meth flooding Australian streets. Assigned to infiltrate a newly appointed security company at Fremantle Port, he discovers a clandestine world of off-the-books operations, and a business front that goes far beyond mere security. There’s a dangerous game afoot for who gets control of the port’s smuggling operations, and O’Keefe is caught in the crossfire.We have 30 copies of this book to give away. For your chance to Preview this book, click on the link and fill in the registration form.

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Your Preview Verdict: O'Keefe by David Whish-Wilson

Review | Preview

15 October 2025

Your Preview Verdict: O'Keefe by David Whish-Wilson

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              Publisher details

              O’Keefe
              Author
              David Whish-Wilson
              Publisher
              Fremantle Press
              Genres
              Crime Fiction, Fiction
              Released
              30 September, 2025
              ISBN
              9781760995256

              Synopsis

              Follow Paul Cutler on his next adventure as he fights the cocaine gold rush.

              Assuming his new identity as Paul O’Keefe, Paul is tasked with finding the supplier of a surge of Mexican cartel meth flooding Australian streets. Assigned to infiltrate a newly appointed security company at Fremantle Port, he discovers a clandestine world of off-the-books operations, and a business front that goes far beyond mere security. There’s a dangerous game afoot for who gets control of the port’s smuggling operations, and O’Keefe is caught in the crossfire.

              David Whish-Wilson
              About the author

              David Whish-Wilson

              David Whish-Wilson is an acclaimed crime-writer and academic who grew up between NSW, Singapore, Victoria and WA. He left Australia aged eighteen to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, street-seller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug-trial guinea pig. He now lives in Fremantle and coordinates the creative writing program at Curtin University.

              Books by David Whish-Wilson

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