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Fear Is The Rider by Kenneth Cook
Category: Crime and Thrillers
It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air. She smelt her attacker before she saw him. A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell she'd never encou ...Show more
Fear is the Rider by Kenneth Cook
Category: Fiction
A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. He's not far along the road when a d ...Show more
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Category: Fiction
In the Western Australia town of Bundanyabba, a young schoolmaster discovers gambling, ruins himself financially, then plunges headlong toward his own destruction in many other ways, alcoholic, sexual and spiritual - and yet somehow throughout this five-day nightmare there persists a note of hope in the ...Show more
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Category: Fiction
Wake in Fright tells of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub. In the company of shadowy strangers, one night stretch ...Show more
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Category: Classic
Wake in Frighttells of a young teacher, John Grant, who becomes stranded in the outback mining town of Bundanyabba, or 'the Yabba? - scorchingly hot, eerily desolate and drowning in alcohol, sex and secretsWake in Frightwas made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It ...Show more
Wake in Fright (CD) by Kenneth Cook
Category: Audio Books
Wake in Frighttells of a young teacher, John Grant, who becomes stranded in the outback mining town of Bundanyabba, or 'the Yabba? - scorchingly hot, eerily desolate and drowning in alcohol, sex and secretsWake in Frightwas made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. It ...Show more
Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Wanted Dead by Kenneth Cook
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Special Constable Riley is pitted against desperate men in his battle to make the peace in the wild rugged bush of colonial New South Wales.In this exciting thriller by Kenneth Cook, author of Wake in Fright, the black and desperate deeds of our brutal past are recorded for the enjoyment of the modern r ...Show more
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