WRACK

The first novel by bestselling author James Bradley, author of TheResurrectionist. Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year old Portugueseshipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite thehistory of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murderedfifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind ofhistory. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something ofthe corpse's identity - and also its connection to the shipwreck. Hebegins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred byambition, sexual passion, rivalry, deceit and betrayal. But will he giveDavid the information he needs before it is too late?