Category:
Mystery,
Novel,
ThrillerLanguage:
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Australia OutbackWritten by Paul Daley
Format: MP3
Unabridged
Welcome to The Leap, an outback town fuelled by fear, churning with corruption, prejudice and misogyny - and blighted by its inescapable history of frontier violence. Into this nightmarish morass falters traumatised British diplomat, Benedict Fotheringham-Gaskill. He’s on his first Australian mission, one seemingly straightforward enough - until he arrives in The Leap to battle a town conspiring against him.
The Leap is baying for violent vengeance over the alleged murder of the celebrated daughter of a powerful local grazier. But Benedict is on an impossible quest for the opposite: mercy for the young woman’s two alleged female killers. The townspeople will challenge and threaten Benedict at every turn as he fights for justice, his future, his sanity - and ultimately his life.
From the acclaimed author of Jesustown comes a pulse-pounding throat-punch of a literary thriller, filled with humour, horror, blistering historical truths, indelible characters and a final twist that will take your breath away.