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 . Language: English