"Set during the years 1910 to 1916, the novel follows the story of Starkey Moore, a loner living in the small outback town of Hope, who discovers a young man collapsed by the side of a road in a storm. Moore nurses the young Joey back to health and proceeds to teach him a number of life lessons."
Source: Wikipedia 2/2/25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Men_Running_(novel)#:~:text=6%20References-,Plot%20summary,a%20number%20of%20life%20lessons.