{"product_id":"the-leap-paul-daley-9781761632525","title":"The Leap","description":"\u003cp\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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\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.'\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eWelcome 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of Jesustown 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Daley","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47587458121971,"sku":"9781761632525","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781761632525.jpg?v=1753560803","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-leap-paul-daley-9781761632525","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}