When Detective Inspector John ‘Billy the Kid’ Bonney inherits the case of the mysterious disappearance of Senior Sergeant Mac Murphy three years prior, he suspects corruption in the Police Service is responsible for a cover-up. However, nothing prepares him for the tangled web of intrigue his investigations will uncover, the lengths to which his antagonists will go in order to block his solving of the case or just how life-changing his experiences will be.
Don Douglas writes the best outback dialogue you'll ever read, and nothing's more important in a cop novel than dialogue. I really enjoyed this book, peopled with crooked cops and other twisted individuals; littered with drug shipments and semi-trailer loads of chop-chop. The action starts off around Cairns, but extends all the way across Northern Australia to Broome, and the author's intimate knowledge of the bush shines through. Raw in style and content, the action never flags. Well worth a read.