'In 1817 Van Diemen’s Land stands on the brink of civil war. A former British soldier and escaped convict leads a well trained and disciplined guerilla in armed revolt against the brutal colonial establishment. In desperation, Governor Macquarie releases the most notorious man in the colony, an Aboriginal resistance fighter called Musquito, to track down and kill the most wanted man in the Empire: the outlaw Michael Howe.' (Publisher's blurb)
