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Language English Publication date 2014 Pages 434 Originally published 29 July 2014 Page count 434 Country Australia | 4/5 Goodreads Publisher Hachette, Australia Media type Print (Paperback) Preceded by Watching You ISBN 9780751552904 Genres Novel, Crime Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Life or Death (2014) is a crime novel by Australian author Michael Robotham. It won the 2015 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. This is his first book to not involve either of his two main characters; Joe O'Loughlin and Vincent Ruiz.
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Plot summary
Audie Palmer escapes from a Texas jail the day before the end of his ten-year sentence for armed robbery and second-degree murder. His friend Moss Webster is mysteriously released from the same prison and told to find Palmer and, if possible, the money missing from the robbery of the armoured van; money that has never been recovered.
Reviews
Jeff Popple in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel, at its core, "a gripping thriller". Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times noted that the author "isn't entirely at ease with the Texas vernacular, but he's responsive enough to the idiosyncrasies of the culture".