Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared and is out of hiding and looking forward to the quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for doomsday by building a bolthole in the valley. As tensions simmer, Nick finds himself up against an evil that knows no borders and no depths.
Alan Carterwas born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and now lives just south of Hobart. He sometimes works as a television documentary director. In his spare time he plunges into the icy Tasmanian waters for fun. He is the author of four Cato Kwong novels, Prime Cut, Getting Warmer, Bad Seed,andHeaven Sent, and the Nick Chester novel,Marlborough Man, set in NZ.Doom Creekis the second in the Nick Chester series.
The second book in the Nick Chester series, Marlborough Man won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel and fans of crime fiction will enjoy the sequel.
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