Book two in the award-winning Nick Chester series, filled with scandal, gangsters and gold fever.
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared. He's out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks when a group of trigger-happy Americans prepare for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of New Zealand's South Island.
With tensions simmering in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working a cold-case murder and investigating a scandalplagued religious sect. As local and international events reach fever pitch, Chester finds himself up against an evil that knows no borders.
Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and now lives in splendid semi-rural semi-isolation south of Hobart, Tasmania. He sometimes works as a television documentary director and in his spare time he follows the black line up and down the local swimming pool or drags on his wetsuit and braves the icy waters of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.
Crime and mystery fiction
Paperback, 304 pages
H: 233mm W: 153mm Spine: 22mm
Weight: 379 grams