A retired special-forces soldier is set to expose the corruption and decadence of the upper levels of Australian society. The day arrives to present his evidence but there is a glitch and he is ordered to flee to Western Australia, where he finds himself in the frame for the murder of a 14-year-old boy.
The killer's intended victim, was, a lawyer about to start a new job with her old boss, a QC known for his success in prosecuting political corruption trials.
When the counter-terrorism laws are used against her current business partner, she suspects someone other than the elected government is controlling the strings of power, and her past comes back to haunt her.
Cotton, Dan: - Dan Cotton spent the first fifteen years of his working life travelling the world with the Grey Funnel Line (Royal Navy). He then joined the world of commerce and pretty much carried on travelling as before. In the eighties, he started a business that eventually listed on the Stock Exchange and delisted in 1989 after the crash of 1987. He didn't make much money, but he learned the hard way, about the underbelly of high-end business operations and decided there were better ways to earn a crust.Twelve years in the IT world kept him going until he decided to do his own thing and start an art gallery with a picture framing service. In the event that he doesn't make squillions from his writing, he'll still be scratching away until he carks it. *Who is Dan Cotton? Sometimes, even he's not sure. He's one of those folks who, no matter where they are in the world, will always be mistaken for someone else: *Having written nothing more than business proposals and letters, he started on his first manuscript and soon realised he badly needed help. That's when he joined the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writing Centre (WA) and, with encouragement and critique from KSP's Thursday Night Group, he has been able to complete three trilogies comprising, "Triptych", "Toxic Trade" and "Terrorist", "WTF", "Quarry", and "Bird of Prey". This novel "Plausible Deniability" is the third of a third trilogy, which includes "Traffic" and "Recoverance Inc".*He has written a number of short stories, poems, and drabbles. These are published in various anthologies. In addition, he has completed another full-length work, "The Second Meridian," in the speculative fiction genre. *For sixteen years, He's been a member of a team who compete annually in the Open Section of "Write A Book In A Day" [www.writeabookinaday.com]. This is a national competition aimed at improving child literacy while raising funds for children's cancer research. Several of the team's entries have been winners in the open section, or highly commended, and have since been privately published. Not only is it a hard day's slog it's one of the best ways of testing one's writing, but, due to other pressures, 2024 was his last.
