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Gunpowder Creek

By: Alex Dook
Narrated by: Sonya Kerr
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"Mum, please. I need your help. I’ve done something stupid… They’re coming for me."

Friday, 1:30 p.m. Emily Barnes is finishing work for the week, ready for a break from her laptop. Then she receives a panicked voicemail from her son Zach, punctuated by a gunshot.

By 4 p.m., she's driving a stolen car out of Perth, with explicit instructions from Zach's captors—in three days, deliver the car to Gunpowder Creek, a ghost town 900 kilometres deep into the West Australian outback. Miss the deadline and Zach dies. And don't open the boot.

The job should be simple. But there's someone dangerous roaming those lonely highways. Someone who doesn't want the car and its cargo to make it to Gunpowder Creek. Someone with cold eyes who has seen death and liked it.

For fans of Adrian McKinty and Will Dean, this cat-and-mouse thriller ignites like the fuse on a stick of dynamite.

©2025 Alex Dook (P)2025 W. F. Howes ltd. Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Alex blends this fast pasted thriller with dry obersavational humour across the WA landscape. Interesting mix of characters, some genuinely tense moments and you're never quite sure how it's all going to be resolved.

And always interesting hearing a narrator's pronunciations of WA towns and suburbs.

Cracking West Aussie Thriller

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