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Blood and Gold
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The exciting new rural thriller from the bestselling author of Wild Dogs and No Trace. Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them... Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting...
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The exciting new rural thriller from the bestselling author of Wild Dogs and No Trace.
Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them...
Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting discovery - and then vanish into thin air. But Gabe Ahern is determined he will be the last.
No one knows the land around the remote Western Australian town of Cue better than Gabe - a wild dog trapper who's in his element in the bush. Feeling responsible for his friend's fate, he races there to join the search.
But it won't be an easy ride. For a start, the local cops seem sure Terry going missing is nothing more than a tragic accident. It's down to Gabe to spot the sinister pattern of disappearances and deaths in recent years.
Plus, the last time Gabe was in his old hometown, it was under the very worst of circumstances. And now, to stop a killer, he'll need to confront the ghosts from his past...
Praise for the Gabe Ahern series:
'Tough, fast and hard - my type of book.' - Lee Child on Wild Dogs
'High octane, full throttle.' - Herald Sun on Wild Dogs
'An absolute gem... An absorbing, exciting, page-turning thriller. I highly recommend.' - Good Reading Magazine on No Trace
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761347771
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 January 2025
Country: Australia
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 29.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 420g
Pages: 336
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About the Author
Michael Trant is a WA country boy now residing in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and FIFO pot washer. Michael writes with an authentic rural voice, drawing on his experiences to open readers to places and lifestyles foreign to many. He has a passion for farming, writing, and gaming, the order of which vary throughout the year. He still works on farms as a tractor driver, mainly to annoy those teachers who claimed no one would pay him to stare out a window all day. He is also the author of Ridgeview Station, Wild Dogs and No Trace.
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No Trace
The outback thriller meets the locked room mystery! From the author of Wild Dogs comes an electrifying combination of outback action thriller and the classic locked room mystery. Did you have to kill them all? It's the question Gabe Ahern has been running from since he busted open a major criminal operation—and left a dozen men dead. He knows that...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia's answer to Jack Reacher. 'Tough, fast and hard - my kind of book.' - Lee Child In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife's death - and the...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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