The Hitchhiker: The gripping and terrifying new outback thriller from the bestselling author of THE CARETAKER,...

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Gabriel Bergmoser

The Hitchhiker

The gripping and terrifying new outback thriller from the bestselling author of THE CARETAKER,...

Gabriel Bergmoser

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HARPER360
01 August 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Adventure; Horror & ghost stories; Australian Crime Fiction

From the award-winning author of The Hunted comes a fast-paced, nail-biting outback thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Pushing fifty and reeling from an ugly divorce, Paul has decided it's time for an adventure. With the Bee Gees on the car stereo and the open road ahead, he sets out into the middle of nowhere, ready for whatever comes. But things take a sinister turn when he impulsively decides to pick up a hitchhiker. Clutching a ragged backpack and with his eyes locked on the rear-view mirror, this twitchy young man is clearly running from something. But what? And when the truth is revealed, how far will he – and Paul – go to survive?

A twisted cat-and-mouse game set in the desolate expanse of the Australian outback, The Hitchhiker is a tense, sun-beaten and savage edge-of-your-seat thriller.

'I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Brother

'A terrifying tale of violence, fear and loneliness, as achingly tender as it is nail-bitingly tense' Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place

'Two things I will never do again after devouring The Hitchhiker: miss a book by Gabriel Bergmoser, ever get in a car with him ...' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

By: Gabriel Bergmoser
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9781460766392
ISBN 10: 1460766393
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015, was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing and went on to win several awards at the 2017 VDL One Act Play Festival circuit. In 2016 his first young adult novel, Boone Shepard, was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize. His first novel for adults, The Hunted (2020), became a bestseller and a film adaptation is currently in development. Since then he has published the thrillers The Inheritance (2021) and The Caretaker (2023), along with the YA coming-of-age novel The True Colour of a Little White Lie (2021) and the middle-grade adventure Andromache Between Worlds (2024).