Blood and Gold

Michael Trant

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Penguin
21 January 2025

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Australian Crime Fiction

The exciting new rural thriller from the bestselling author of WILD DOGS and NO TRACE.

Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . . .

Terry Drage is not the first amateur gold prospector to rock up to the Murchison Hotel, brag about an exciting discovery - and then vanish into thin air. But Gabe Ahern is determined he will be the last.

No one knows the land around the remote Western Australian town of Cue better than Gabe - a wild dog trapper who's in his element

in the bush. Feeling responsible for his friend's fate, he races there to join the search.

But it won't be an easy ride. For a start the local cops seem sure Terry going missing is nothing more than a tragic accident. It's down to Gabe to spot the sinister pattern of disappearances and deaths in recent years.

Plus, the last time Gabe was in his old home town it was under the very worst of circumstances. And now, to stop a killer, he'll need to confront the ghosts from his past . . .

Praise for the Gabe Ahern series- 'Tough, fast and hard - my type of book.' Lee Child on Wild Dogs

'High octane, full throttle.' Herald Sun on Wild Dogs

'An absolute gem . . . An absorbing, exciting, page-turning thriller. I highly recommend.' Good Reading Magazine on No Trace

By: Michael Trant
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781761347771
ISBN 10: 1761347772
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 21 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Michael Trant is a WA country boy now residing in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and FIFO pot washer. Michael writes with an authentic rural voice, drawing on his experiences to open readers to places and lifestyles foreign to many. He has a passion for farming, writing, and gaming, the order of which vary throughout the year. He still works on farms as a tractor driver, mainly to annoy those teachers who claimed no one would pay him to stare out a window all day. He is also the author of Ridgeview Station, Wild Dogs and No Trace.