Beneath Contempt - Harry Colfer QUEENSLAND AUTHOR
When the morality of a business venture knows no depths…
After unearthing a serial killer in Brisbane, paramedic Jonothan Byrne escapes the limelight by taking a transfer to Far North Queensland. Although serving the remote community of Mornington Island helps to soothe his guilt, leaving the city fails to free him from the traumatic memories that haunt his subconscious.
But just as he looks set to recover, his world is turned upside down when he’s drawn into an illegal operation. In fighting to save his life and the lives of others, can he achieve his own salvation?
Written by a real-life Critical Care Paramedic, this story has it all: smugglers, ruthless killers, sharks and crocs, all served up with dark ambo humour sweltering under the tropical sun.
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PAGES 325
DEPTH (MM) 28
HEIGHT (MM) 198
WIDTH (MM) 129
WEIGHT (G) 307
PUBLISHED 10/11/2021
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.
