Gunpowder Creek
$26.75
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 September 2025
Summary
Friday, one thirty p.m. Emily Barnes is finishing work for the week, ready for a break from her laptop. Then she receives a panicked voicemail from her son Zach, punctuated by a gunshot.
By four p.m., she’s driving a stolen car out of Perth, with explicit instructions from Zach’s captors - in three days, deliver the car to Gunpowder Creek, a ghost town 900 kilometres deep into the West Australian outback. Miss the deadline and Zach dies. And don’t open the boot.
The job should…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786585158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786585154 |
| Author: | Alex Dook |
| Publisher: | Bonnier Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Echo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘One of those high-octane, heart thumping, up-all-night-can’t-put-it-down type of books. Candice Fox meets Quentin Tarantino.’ Ben Hobson
Alex Dook
Alex Dook is a writer based in Perth, Western Australia. His previous writing has been longlisted for the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award and Highly Commended in the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award. Gunpowder Creek is his first novel.
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