- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: BCA; 1st Edition edition (2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752838466
- ISBN-13: 978-0752838465
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 650,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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UK hardback first impression. SIGNED to title page. Fine in fine jacket. Orion 2001.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of those rare novels that has a powerful sense of place. The heat of the outback scorches the reader as one is gripped by a narrative drive that takes hold and never lets up for a moment. The writing is smooth and assured, the characterizations are rounded and fully fleshed, and there is enough action to leave one thoroughly out of breath by the end. Particularly fine is the depiction of the aboriginal lot in Australia, and the unspooling of a plot that is never predictable. The heroine takes an extroardinary amount of punishment, and it's a bit difficult to believe she suffers no serious injury as a result. That aside, this is a splendid first novel and I recommend it highly.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the most breathtaking thriller I've read in ages. It deserves the New Writer's Award from the Crime Writers Association for the plot alone. A lot of the social attitudes and small town dynamics of the Australian outback feature in the action - especially for this young woman travelling alone. She is as resourceful and bolshie as Vic Warshawski which does not enamour her to the police or local people. Her car conks out on her way to meet her closest friend - she has no idea why this place was chosen for their reunion - but she doesn't turn up. The man who gave her a lift is found murdered together with her friend. Then everything turns nasty when the police lock her up for the murder, and the town is prepared to lynch her - mostly because she's a stranger. The background of heat, the dangers of the outback and the mystery surrounding so much of the the hostility she meets are interwoven making no sense to her. But her friends death needs explaining so she tentatively looks for people prepared to help. But looking for her friends killers means she has no clues, there is no reason for anyone to harm her but her life is obviously in danger. People want her dead. It's an exciting yarn by a brilliant story-teller who has included original Australians as important characters with their own story to tell.
Format:Hardcover
The Author writes a fast paced story that does not rely on the characters doing really stupid things to move the story on. A very good read
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