Interview with David Whish-Wilson - O’Keefe

If you read Cutler, and even if you didn’t, you will want to follow Paul Cutler on his next adventure as he fights the cocaine gold rush.

Assuming his new identity as Paul O’Keefe, Paul is tasked with finding the supplier of a surge of Mexican cartel meth flooding Australian streets. Assigned to infiltrate a newly appointed security company at Fremantle Port, he discovers a clandestine world of off-the-books operations, and a business front that goes far beyond mere security. There’s a dangerous game afoot for who gets control of the port’s smuggling operations, and O’Keefe is caught in the crossfire.

The new novel, O’Keefe – which is very soon to be released by Fremantle Press – lives up to its promise of a ‘pulse-pounding thriller that takes a hard look at the Australian ‘cocaine gold rush’, where maritime crime meets the ruthless currents of the underworld.’

We at Fremantle Shipping News agree with Chris Hammer’s praise for O’Keefe as ‘Vivid, dark, evocative. A hair-raising ride through Australia’s criminal underworld.’

Our Editor, Michael Barker, was pleased to sit down with David Whish-Wilson to make the podcast below where we discuss O’Keefe, the cocaine trade, the crime novelist as more than an entertainer, and how one chooses names for characters in a crime novel!

By Michael Barker, Editor, Fremantle Shipping News

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