A ripper of an outback tale for young adult and older readers.
Set in Broome, Western Australia, engineer Martin Dexter boards a plane bound for the Sandy Desert only to be derailed by a 200 kilometer per hour cyclone that is on their tail. Starving and alone in the middle of the outback, Dexter’s encounter with an Aboriginal man named Willy saves his life and the sets the lives of both men on an intertwining path. Their destinies are now in each others’ hands.
Charles Beagley crafts a masterful tale, taking the reader on a courageous and emotional journey through the Sandy Desert and into the lives of two very different strangers.