Overview
This is the second half of the prequel of the Crocodile Dreaming Series, a dark outback Australian story. The Series tells the story of an English visitor Susan who is is captivated and in great danger from a charming man, MB, who love crocodiles, and traverses remote outback Australia in the manner of Crocodile Dundee and Breaker Morant, working on stations, breaking horses, mustering and living with nature.
Susan goes with him alone travelling to places unknown. But she discovers terrible secrets, she finds passports of four missing girls, vanished, assumed dead. She takes the only way out she can to escape this man. But who is this person that she thought she loved. Is he an evil monster or is he a victim? Read the Series Prequel to hear the story told through this man, MB's, own eyes
It tells of a man consumed by rage at the loss of his lover killed by his hand, and then of his friend, a fellow rodeo rider, killed by the bull Whirlwind. He will find who is responsible and enact a terrible retribution. Once a great rodeo rider following in the footsteps of Breaker Morant. Now he harms all he touches as a whirlwind of grief and vengeance drags him down.
Then he discovers her, Susan, she is so very beautiful and she loves him too. But she needs to know who he is and he knows the truth will destroy her. There is no way out but a final act of vengeance upon himself.
This book concludes the story of the man, MB, someone who desires to walk in the footsteps of the Breaker, a man whose final words to his execution squad was 'Shoot Straight You Bastards'. Now MB has made his own choice, he must walk the same path - there is no other way to save the one he loves.
This is an early version of the book which may contain some editing issues. It has been released at a discount to encourage readers to read and review it. If you have suggestions for improvement the author would value your input.
Before you read this book it is recommended that you read the book Just Visiting and the first half of this prequel, Return of the Breaker, which are both available free from this site and they give background to this book. You may also wish to read Book 4 Lost Girls which tells the story of the missing girls who form part of this story.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940155956457 |
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| Publisher: | Graham Wilson |
| Publication date: | 01/24/2019 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 396 KB |
About the Author
Graham Wilson lives in Sydney Australia. He has completed and published eleven separate books, and also a range of combined novel box sets. He is working on two new books
Published books comprise two series,
1.The Old Balmain House Series
2.. The Crocodile Dreaming Series
He has also written a family memoir. Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children
The first series starts with a novel called Little Lost Girl, based on an old a weatherboard cottage in Sydney where the author lived. Here a photo was discovered of a small girl who lived and died about 100 years ago. The book imagines the story of her life and family, based in the real Balmain, an early inner Sydney suburb, with its locations and historical events providing part of the story background. The second novel in this series, Lizzie's Tale builds on the Old Balmain House setting, It is the story of a working class teenage girl who lives in this same house in the 1950s and 1960s, It tells of how, when she becomes pregnant she is determined not to surrender her baby for adoption, and of her struggle to survive in this unforgiving society. The third novel in this series, Devil's Choice, follows the next generation of the family in Lizzie's Tale. Lizzie's daughter is faced with the awful choice of whether to seek the help of one of her mother's rapists' in trying to save the life of her own daughter who is inflicted with an incurable disease.
The Crocodile Dreaming Series comprises five novels based in Outback Australia. The first novel Just Visiting.is the story of an English backpacker, Susan, who visits the Northern Territory and becomes captivated and in great danger from a man who loves crocodiles. The second book in the series, The Diary, follows the consequences of the first book based around the discovery of this man's remains and his diary and Susan, being placed on trial for murder. The third book, The Empty Place, is about Susan's struggle to retain her sanity in jail while her family and friends desperately try to find out what really happened on that fateful day before it is too late. In Lost Girls Susan vanishes and it tells the story of the search for her and four other lost girls whose passports were found in the possession of the man she killed. The final book in the series, Sunlit Shadow Dance is the story of a girl who appears in a remote aboriginal community in North Queensland, without any memory except for a name. It tells how she rebuilds her life from an empty shell and how, as fragments of the past return, with them come dark shadows that threaten to overwhelm her. Graham has also just written a two part Prequel to this Series. It tells the story of the other main character, Mark, from his own point of view and of how he became the calculating killer of this series.
The book, Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children, is the story of the author's own life in the Northern Territory. It tells of his childhood in an aboriginal community in remote Arnhem Land, one of Australia’s last frontiers. It tells of the people, danger and beauty of this place, and of its transformation over the last half century with the coming of aboriginal rights and the discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.
Books are published as ebooks by Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo, iBooks and other major ebook publishers. Some books are available in print through Amazon Create Space and Ingram Spark
Graham is currently writing a new novel, "Risk Free'. It is a story about corporate greed and how a company restructures to avoid responsibility for the things it did and the victims it leaves in its wake.
Graham is in the early stages of a memoir about his family's connections with Ireland called Memories Only Remain. He is also compiling information for a book about the early NT cattle industry, its people and its stories.
Graham writes for the creative pleasure it brings him. He is particularly gratified each time an unknown person chooses to download and read something he has written and write a review - good or bad, as this gives him an insight into what readers enjoy and helps him make ongoing improvements to his writing.
In his non writing life Graham is a veterinarian who work in wildlife conservation and for rural landholders. He lived a large part of his life in the Northern Territory and his books reflect this experience.