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- Lothian Children's Books
- Lothian Children's Books
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Lothian Classic, Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
A stunning tale of intrigue and survival in the Australian outback from the author of THE DIVINE WIND.
Rick's cousins are two specks floating on the horizon, leaving him far behind on the treacherous bush track. He looks at his punctured tyres in dismay. Ten kilometres. If he walks, he'll be too late to save them. If he runs, he'll expire in the heat.
Somewhere across the flats, in between the red-dirt back roads, there's real trouble happening. Rick has never felt so alone; the land around him feels as alien as the moon - nothing like the city.
But now is no time to hesitate... Ian and Nita are depending on him.
Then the voice of his dead father comes ringing: 'Don't use up all your energy at once. Walk twenty, run twenty.'
Garry Disher
GARRY DISHER grew up on a wheat and wool farm in South Australia. He has an MA in Australian History and has lived, worked and travelled in England, Italy, Israel, the USA and southern Africa. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first collection of short stories. Garry worked as a writing lecturer between the years 1980 and 1988, before becoming a full-time writer. He has published over fifty books, including short story collections, literary novels, writers' handbooks and award-winning crime thrillers and children's titles.
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