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Paul E. Hardisty

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Toronto, Canada

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Fiction, Thriller, Crime

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Paul E Hardisty has worked all over the world as an environmental scientist and writer. His work has taken him to some of the world's most dangerous places, including Yemen, Ethiopia, and most recently Ukraine in 2022, 2024, and 2025 working on a new book about the war. The Abrupt Physics of Dying, the first novel in his Claymore Straker thriller series was shortlisted for the CWA Creasy dagger award and was one of the London Telegraph's 2015 crime books of the year. The Forcing, first book in his climate thriller series, was shortlisted for the Crime Fiction Lovers' Awards for 2023, and In Hot Water: Inside the Battle to Save the Great Barrier Reef, was shortlisted for the 2025 WA Premier's Award for non-fiction. Paul lives in Western Aust ...more

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	The Forcing 3.83 avg rating — 701 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Abrupt Physics of Dying (Claymore Straker, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 226 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Turbulent Wake 4.23 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2019 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Descent 4.18 avg rating — 109 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reconciliation for the Dead 4.37 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Fear (Claymore Straker, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 99 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absolution (Claymore Straker, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Hot Water: Inside the battle to save the Great Barrier Reef 4.48 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hope: The most explosive, utterly compelling, MUST-READ climate-emergency thriller of 2026 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Claymore Straker Vigilante Series (Books 1-4 in the exhilarating, gripping, eye-opening series: The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear, ... and Absolution) (Claymore Straker Series) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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This is a story from a new project I am working on that I hope may be published in 2019. the working title for the project is This Turbulent Wake.

This story is based on experiences working in Ethiopia back in the 1990's.

The Chef

It was the chef who’d found him, that first morning, shivering naked in his bed, delirious.

Whatever had infected him, whatever was there now still, ripping him apart, had Read more of this blog post »

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“the folly of putting the economy ahead of people, as if somehow we existed to serve the economy, rather than the other way around.”
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“No one wanted to rock the boat. The economy had to grow, even if it cost us the planet.”
― Paul E. Hardisty, The Forcing

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