The Dead Heart

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

• | Author: Douglas Kennedy
• | Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• | Publication Date: Apr 13, 1995
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780349106458
• | ISBN-10: 0349106452