7/6/2023 0 Comments The lost man harperHarper’s sinewy prose and flinty characters compel, but the dreary story line may cause some readers to give up before the jaw-dropping denouement. Jane Harper’s new novel The Lost Man takes place in the remote Australian outback, in a place where the horizon was so flat and far away it seemed possible to detect the. In the grim journey that follows, the surviving members of the Bright family must confront some devastating secrets. Absent any clear indications of foul play, the local authorities undertake a perfunctory investigation, leaving a troubled Nathan to start asking questions that no one wants to answer. 'I think that lives could be lost (or) people could be harmed, he said. That flies out the window the week before Christmas when Cameron goes missing his desiccated corpse is subsequently discovered a few miles from his perfectly operational truck in the shadow of the eerie headstone known as the stockman’s grave. RT TollyTaylor: NEW: A man with an AR-15 has shown up to an elementary school bus stop for weeks, and one parent tells the I-Team he’s afraid for his kids and worried about where it’ll lead. For years, the three Bright brothers-divorced dad Nathan, the eldest family man and everybody’s favorite, middle child Cameron and the mentally challenged youngest, Bub-have maintained an uneasy equilibrium on adjacent cattle ranches. Australia’s outback, with its brutal climate and equally bruising isolation, looms as large as any character in this stark standalone from bestseller Harper ( Force of Nature).
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