Life or Death (novel)

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Life or Death
Author Michael Robotham
Country Australia
Language English
Genre Crime novel
Publisher Hachette, Australia
Publication date
 2014
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 434
ISBN 9780751552904
Preceded by Watching You
Followed by Close Your Eyes

Life or Death (2014) is a crime novel by Australian author Michael Robotham. It won the 2015 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award.[1] This is his first book to not involve either of his two main characters; Joe O'Loughlin and Vincent Ruiz.[2]

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.

Notes

"Life can be magnificent and overwhelming – That is its whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live." Albert Camus

"To be, or not to be: that is the question." William Shakespeare

Reviews

Jeff Popple in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel, at its core, "a gripping thriller".[3] 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".[4]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Michael Robotham beats Stephen King to win Britain's Gold Dagger crime-writing award". The Age newspaper. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
  2. ↑ "Book review: Life or Death, by Michael Robotham". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Book review: Life or Death, Michael Robotham", The Sydney Morning Herald, 15 August 2014
  4. ↑ "Take the Money and Run", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 2015
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