Walkabout

He is on a private archaeological dive in a flooded sinkhole, two thousand miles from home. His air tank is empty. His diving partner has been killed in a brutal shark attack. And as he surfaces, he discovers that his towline has been severed, stranding him as he treads water beneath the burning tropical sun. As he considers his options, a woman appears at the edge of the sinkhole above, holding the severed line. "Senior Special Agent Marler," she says. "Federal Bureau of Investigation. You're under arrest."

American Jake Young thought he had left his past - and his crimes - behind him twenty years earlier when he fled to Australia, built himself a ranch deep in the Outback, and took on a new identity as a sheep farmer and part-time private tour guide. But some mistakes never go away. Not only has he been found while on assignment on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, but the lead investigator for the FBI is a disturbingly familiar face from his past. She's on his trail now, while her partner searches for Jake's Australian wife, Beth, who's still back home in central Australia.

A dual manhunt ensues across the remote stretches of the unforgiving Outback and the densely-forested regions of northern Australia, as Jake and Beth race to meet up and escape the looming specter of Jake's past.

Crocodile Dundee meets The Fugitive in this action-packed thriller from the best-selling author of Widow's Walk and Tragedy in the Sierra Nevada.