In his first novel, ICE REICH, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter William Dietrich wrote the ultimate Antarctica adventure. His new novel is a classic of man against nature - and man against himself - plunging us into the unforgiving Australian outback. Here a refugee of corporate America finds himself in a life-and-death struggle for survival in the company of a mysterious woman. For Daniel Dyson the outback is the answer to his deepest longing for adventure and the most frightening question of all: What is a person willing to sacrifice in order to survive?