Cirrus@Austlit

'Wild Dogs is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia's answer to Jack Reacher

'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 part he played in it - the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Altair, from certain execution.

'Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Altair's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Hunter, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own.

'As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive...' (Publication summary)

''Did you have to kill them all?'

'It's the question Gabe Ahern has been running from since he bust open a major criminal operation - and left a dozen men dead. He knows that one day the 'bad guys' will come for revenge.

'A skilled dog-trapper, Gabe has one rule—leave no sign, leave no trace. And for the last year he's been successfully hiding out on a friend's remote cattle property in the Pilbara.

'But when Goldmont Station opens its gates to a bunch of city folk eager for an authentic outback experience, Gabe can feel eyes on his back. Are all these visitors really tourists?

'In the space of 24 hours, the station's helicopter falls from the sky ... the phones and internet go down ... and one of the guests turns up dead ...

'With major flooding suddenly cutting off all exit roads, Gabe fears he's as trapped as the dogs he hunts. And that his bloody past has finally caught up with him.' (Publication summary)