Australian Crime Thriller Author

Jack Wylie

Crime thrillers set where Sydney's glamour meets its dark water — stories of ambition, privilege, corruption and the secrets powerful people will do anything to protect.

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Harbour of Lies — the first Sam Wylder thriller. Coming 2 November 2026.

The debut novel

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WylderThe series

The Sam Wylder Series

One investigator. A city with a dark side.

Former Australian intelligence operative Sam Wylder is the thread running through Jack Wylie's Sydney — a private investigator who knows exactly how far the powerful will go to protect what they've hidden.

Harbour of Lies is Book One. More is on the way.

Meet Sam Wylder

The Author

Jack Wylie

A lifetime spent around Sydney Harbour — in corporate boardrooms and out on the water — sits behind every page. Jack writes the city he knows: the postcard, and everything moving beneath it.

About Jack

Jack Wylie — self-portrait in pencil — Self-portrait · pencil

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