Recommended by Dunsborough Book Chat Club
This is the 4th book by this author who is a WA country boy having had a variety of careers ranging from farmer to marine draftsman, pastoralist, and FIFO pot washer. Michael writes with an authentic rural voice, drawing on his experiences to open readers to places and lifestyles foreign to many.
Blood and Gold focuses on an amateur gold prospector Terry Drage in the WA outback who vanishes into thin air after bragging about an exciting discovery in the Murchison Hotel. Feeling responsible for his friend’s fate, Gabe joins the search bringing his new Australian friend Amin to assist him. Gabe realises his mate is not the only one to disappear after bragging at the local pub about the gold they had just found. The situation is made even more difficult for Gabe as he has not been back to his former hometown Cue since the death of his wife, Valerie. Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . . .
I recommend that the reader reads Wild Dogs and No Trace before Blood and Gold, as Blood and Gold continues the close friendships that developed over the previous two novels.
A good outback thriller and suspense.
4.8/5 Stars