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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (13 April 1995)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0349106452
ISBN-13: 978-0349106458
Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 1.8 x 19.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 8,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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**'Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'Fluent and entertaining ... a highly accomplished debut' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH **'His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'A comic triumph' TIME OUT

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'That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ...That map had been a serious mistake' The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape. 'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr

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4.0 out of 5 stars A great (but quick!) read, 8 April 2006

M. B. Edwards (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Every book I've read written by Douglas Kennedy (The Job, The Big Picture and this one) has been a can't put down experience -this bloke knows how to grab you quickly and keep you engaged throughout the story!

In this one an American ventures to Australia looking for adventure, and gets a whole lot more than bargained for. A bit more surrealistic than his other novels, but equally as entertaining.

My only complaint is that I read this in a day, and was left wanting more. If you're travelling this is the ideal book, a captivating quick read that never fails to entertain.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling, 30 Nov 2007

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Yet another Douglas Kennedy story which captured my imagination from page one, scared me and thrilled me and left me wanting more. His books are truly the good read which everybody is looking for. His style is easy going and the stories just roll along, teasing and tempting you to read all the way to the end in one sitting.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Dead or Alive, 14 April 2000

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Nick begins his journey like a good comic albeit an out of work journalist scattering cutting one liners to all and the sun dryed. It is not long before we arrive at a comic fairground of a location to allow Kennedy full reign to his cracking wit. What makes this book so absorbing is this blend of of comedy and horror. He turns the scene to a horrific nightmare dense with a murdered innocence in heat and light. The slaughterhouse, the coagulating blood drying on the rotten flesh of butchered kangaroos destined for the towns processing plant , the towns industry. Welcome to hell with a coma enticing soundtrack for company. Welcome to where your wife beats you and pulls out entrails in her spare time, welcome to where the waste is processed on your back door. Welcome to sellafield ? no, Welcome to Wallanup.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A quick read
We first meet Nick Hawthorne in a Darwin bar. As a stripper offers contorted perspectives on what Australia has to offer, our hero from Maine meets a fellow countryman from... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Philip Spires

2.0 out of 5 stars Dead silly, dead boring
Thank goodness it was a short book because the silly story began to annoy rather than amuse after a while. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Miss J

5.0 out of 5 stars THE DEAD HEART
This is Douglas Kennedy's debut novel and is such an entertaining read. Nick is an American journalist going through a midlife crisis who decides to try his luck in Australia... Read more

Published 8 months ago by Amanda

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly enjoyable
I enjoyed this book more than I expected to. It's the tale of an American guy who buys a camper van to drive across Australia but ends up seeing more (and less) of Australia than... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Mimimum

4.0 out of 5 stars ok
I love this author, but felt he let me down on this one. OK read, but not his best

Published 16 months ago by E. Tod

5.0 out of 5 stars Dead On with this one!
What a cracking little book - I believe it was Douglas Kennedy's debut. Only problem is, it's quite short and very quick to read! Read more

Published on 26 Nov 2009 by Lara Croft

2.0 out of 5 stars Very poor...
I've read many of Douglas Kennedy's books and have found them compulsive reading but this is really poor in comparison. Read more

Published on 3 Nov 2009 by Bobbie Blue

5.0 out of 5 stars OMG! AMAZING!
WOW! This book is one of the best books i have ever read, if not THE best book.
From the moment you open up the book and start reading the first page, Douglas Kennedy as you... Read more

Published on 28 Aug 2009 by Scott Chandler

5.0 out of 5 stars The Dead Heart by Douglas Kennedy - MARVELLOUS!
I have left a review of this book already but I think it deserves another mention. It is absolutely hilarious - so many laughs and "OOHS" and "AHHS" - well worth reading. Read more

Published on 27 Feb 2009 by Mrs. P. A. Jones

4.0 out of 5 stars I've got to get out of here!
good backpacking advice - sex on holiday is not always healthy! - especially when combined, as here, with inbreeding, and a certain inaccessibility of the landscape. Read more

Published on 31 July 2008 by phil mars

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