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This novel, set in the wild Kimberley country of northern Australia in the 1930s, paints a brutal picture of life in those early days, an era when men as dangerous as any that rode through the pages of the American west lived with apparent impunity. Lawless men with no regard for right or wrong. Men like Jan Muller, manager of the sprawling cattle station, Cockatoo Creek, a man with a secret, murderous past. A dangerous, sadistic man with no regard for the Aboriginal people that work on the huge property he manages, or those that roam the wild lands that was the Kimberley of those days. Men like, Max Crabbe, crafty opportunist, cattle thief and murderer.
Cockatoo Creek, the huge station, greater in size than some European countries, is suffering a terrible drought, a drought that threatens the very future of the huge cattle station owned by millionaire Melbourne businessman Michael Montinari. Isabella, his only child, has returned to Australia from Europe having studied fine art there for several years. Isabella, a stunningly beautiful woman, has decided to visit the vast station owned by her father, and to venture into the wild lands and capture with her paints the rugged landscapes that make the Kimberly so unique. Jack Ballinger, a returned serviceman wounded in the hell that was the western front, a close friend of Isabella’s father, is sent north to meet Isabella and to watch over her as they travel into the bush. This harsh, uncompromising land is home to several wandering Aboriginal tribes. Among them, the Ongkomi, and their legendary spirit man, Pirramurar, a man reputed to have supernatural powers, a man that some say can travel the land as a spirit bird.
However, as the terrible drought continues, threatening the vast beef enterprise of Cockatoo Creek. Thousands of cattle may soon perish if the rains do not soon fall. Roaming natives are driven to desperation but they know they must not kill the red beasts of the white man, for they have heard rumour of the slaughter of their people. But, as time passes, hunger and desperation may soon recognize no rule or boundary.
Jiiarnna, the beautiful dark-skinned Aboriginal girl with the strange oriental features, travels to the station homestead with her grandfather, Goonagulla, an elder among her people, and with them, the last of their pitiful group to beg for food from the huge station manager, Jan Muller. But Jiiarnna is soon to find her young life will change forever as this silent, savage land bears witness to rape and murder, which will set in motion a terrible chain of events.

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