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'That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ...That map had been a serious mistake' The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape. 'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr
| ISBN | 0349106452 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9780349106458
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 145 | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Abacus | | Previous ISBN | 9780349119052 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 197 | | Publication date | 13 Apr 1995 | | Width (mm) | 126 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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**'Pulls off that most difficult feat of being hilariously funny and frightening at the same time' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'Fluent and entertaining ... a highly accomplished debut' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH **'His story-telling is so deft, and the build-up so detailed and convincing, that the denouement proves to be heart-thumpingly effective' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY **'A comic triumph' TIME OUT  Be the first to write a customer review
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