Silent Kill is 2014 Australian novel by Peter Corris featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. It was the 39th in the series.
Cliff Hardy is hired to be bodyguard of a politician.
The Sydney Morning Herald wrote "Corris has always had his finger on the political pulse but never more so than in this Hardy outing, which manages to resonate both with the political impulses of a whistleblower in the Assange mode, and the more recent ICAC inquiry into government corruption in New South Wales. This is the best kind of crime fiction, holding a mirror up to the muddled times in which we live to reveal a not altogether flattering reflection."