The Dead Heart

Als der amerikanische Journalist Nick Hawthorne zu einer Reise quer durch den australischen Kontinent aufbricht und eine junge Anhalterin namens Angie mitnimmt, gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen. Die junge Frau verabreicht ihm eine Droge, und als Nick nach einigen Tagen wieder zu sich kommt, ist er mit Angie verheiratet und in ihrem Dorf fernab jeglicher Zivilisation gefangen. Wird es ihm gelingen, dieser Falle zu entkommen?

Zusatztext A comic triumph Informationen zum Autor Douglas Kennedy is the author of THE BIG PICTURE, THE JOB and three travel books, BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS, IN GOD'S COUNTRY and CHASING MAMMON. Born in New York City in 1955, he lives in London with his wife and two children. Klappentext 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 *An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong. Zusammenfassung *An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong.

A comic triumph

Préface
*An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong.

Auteur

Douglas Kennedy is the author of THE BIG PICTURE, THE JOB and three travel books, BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS, IN GOD'S COUNTRY and CHASING MAMMON. Born in New York City in 1955, he lives in London with his wife and two children.

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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

Résumé
*An hilarious thriller about a holiday romance gone wrong.