jack irish: set 1
Guy Pearce is Jack Irish, the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple’s award-winning novels. Reeling in the wake of his wife’s murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons.
When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can’t outrun or outdrink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him - a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption, violence, and retribution.