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By his fifteenth
birthday, Danny McAlister in on the run. He has escaped from a draconian
boarding school after seriously injuring the principal. His flight takes him
through Northern Queensland to the New Guinea Highlands where he searches for
his father, lost while fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track. Thrown into
an unforgiving adult world he grows up fast and becomes embroiled in union wars
amongst cane cutters, joins the crew of prawn trawler in the Gulf of
Carpentaria, gets mixed up with smugglers and New Guinea's burgeoning aviation
industry. He teams up with ‘Mad’ Monty, an eccentric Afro-
American pilot and
Angela, the stunning teenage daughter of an English missionary. They must
endure a series of harrowing adventures as they journey through New Guinea's
Central Highlands and the islands in the Bismarck Sea where they face their
final challenge against vicious Filipino
pirates and discover
the final secret of Danny's missing father.
‘...Masterfully
handled and quite eloquent ...Wonderful.’
‘I liked this
book....it covered issues that needed to be addressed.’
2012 Australian CYA
Writing Competition Judges