{"product_id":"9781761632525","title":"The Leap","description":"Author: Paul Daley\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761632525\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: S\u0026amp;S\/Summit Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 29 Jul 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA white-knuckle ride into a nightmarish outback setting, where a man searching for mercy encounters a town baying for violent vengeance. A pulse-pounding literary thriller with a stunning final twist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e`Think three-fifths of the way to fuck-all-nowhere-ville. Pioneering grazing family. Once hallowed farming country gone to shit. Rabbit plagues and feral pigs. Never-ending drought. Full of Flat Earth Party-voting, climate-change-denying, God-bothering, gun-nut, ground-zero, wife-beating, racist, fundamentalist f*ckers. Pardon my French. Apart from that it’s just a great place.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\n Welcome to The Leap, an outback town fuelled by fear, churning with corruption, prejudice and misogyny – and blighted by its inescapable history of frontier violence. Into this nightmarish morass falters traumatised British diplomat, Benedict Fotheringham-Gaskill. He’s on his first Australian mission, one seemingly straightforward enough – until he arrives in The Leap to battle a town conspiring against him.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\n The Leap is baying for vengeance over the alleged murder of the celebrated daughter of a powerful local grazier. But Benedict is on an impossible quest for the opposite: mercy for the young woman’s two accused female killers. The townspeople will challenge and threaten him at every turn as he fights for justice, his future, his sanity – and ultimately his life.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\n From the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eJesustown\u003c\/i\u003e comes a pulse-pounding throat-punch of a literary thriller, filled with humour, horror, blistering historical truths, indelible characters and a final twist that will take your breath away.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46585545785502,"sku":"HPC-9781761632525","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761632525.jpg?v=1772777712","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761632525","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}