The Dead Heart

by Douglas Kennedy

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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

  • ISBN10 1405511524
  • ISBN13 9781405511520
  • Publish Date 3 November 2011 (first published 21 July 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Abacus
  • Edition Digital original
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 208
  • Language English