High Acuity - Harry Colfer QUEENSLAND AUTHOR
It’s hard to restart your life, when the past keeps cutting like a knife…
On returning to his home town of Brisbane, intensive care paramedic, Jonothan Byrne, wants to put his past behind him and forge ahead to a brighter future. But fate conspires against him. A juggernaut of a reunion heads his way, and only he can recognise a chance meeting for what it is: a terrorist plot. Will he be able to thwart their plans, or is he destined to become another victim? The clock is ticking…
Written by an award-winning author, who is also a critical care paramedic, this gripping story is told in real time over thirteen hours from the viewpoint of various characters. On a day that starts with Jono just wanting to fly under the radar, it soon soars out of control, trapping him on a flight towards the unthinkable. So, strap yourself in and stow away your tray tables, you’re in for one hell of a heart-stopping ride!
PAGES 354
DEPTH (MM) 29
HEIGHT (MM) 198
WIDTH (MM) 129
WEIGHT (G) 329
PUBLISHED 30/11/2023
Signed copy.
Harry Colfer is the pseudonym of an experienced critical care paramedic with twenty years of on-road experience gained in both England and Australia. With his role being one of the highest trained prehospital clinicians, he regularly attends cardiac arrests, multi-system trauma and major incidents. As a way of dealing with his inevitable demons, he embraced the cathartic paramedic custom of storytelling and began writing in his spare time. Using his knowledge of the subject area, he created a series of short stories, Ambo Tales from the Frontline, eventually publishing one for each of the thirty-two codes used to categorise emergency calls. Although his stories are fictional, the clinical details and interventions are all accurate, thereby giving the reader an entertaining education in the frontline emergency world. Beyond this, his main protagonist, Jono, often says and does the things Harry wishes he could get away with, and that’s perhaps why he goes by his pen name. In addition to winning awards for his short stories, Harry has published three full-length novels featuring the same characters: a murder-mystery, Dead Regular, and two action-adventure thrillers, Beneath Contempt and High Acuity. This year he hopes to publish the fourth and final instalment, Show Cause.
