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  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781760146160
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Wild Dogs




Wild Dogs is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia’s answer to Jack Reacher

'Tough, fast and hard – my kind of book.' Lee Child

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners.

Still coming to terms with his wife’s death – and the part he played in it – the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Amin, from certain execution.

Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Amin's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Fowler, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own.

As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive…


'Wild Dogs is a just-one-more-chapter thriller that kept me up long after lights out.' Jack Heath

'Will leave you breathless. Wild Dogs is a wild ride, with some thought-provoking themes, unexpected twists, all set against a haunting landscape.’ Weekend Australian
‘This hard-bitten action novel reads like an Aussie western ... The book’s setting is atmospheric, and its action sequences surge with adrenaline and suspense as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds.’ Sydney Morning Herald
'High octane, full throttle.’ Herald Sun

  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781760146160
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

About the author

Michael Trant

Michael Trant is a WA country boy now residing in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, 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. He has a passion for farming, writing, and gaming, the order of which vary throughout the year. He still works on farms as a tractor driver, mainly to annoy those teachers who claimed no one would pay him to stare out a window all day.

He is also the author of Ridgeview Station and Wild Dogs.

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Praise for Wild Dogs

Tough, fast and hard – my kind of book.

Lee Child

Wild Dogs is a just-one-more-chapter thriller that kept me up long after lights out.

Jack Heath

Will leave you breathless. Wild Dogs is a wild ride, with some thought-provoking themes, unexpected twists, all set against a haunting landscape.

Weekend Australian

This hard-bitten action novel reads like an Aussie western ... The book’s setting is atmospheric, and its action sequences surge with adrenaline and suspense as a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds.

Sydney Morning Herald

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