Author talk: Michael Trant presents 'Wild Dogs'

'Wild Dogs' is scheduled for publication on 1 February 2022, so it will be just released when Michael joins us on Zoom for a conversation about writing action thrillers and what it is like having his novel described as 'Australia's answer to Jack Reacher'.

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Michael Trant is a WA country boy now residing in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and FIFO pot washer.

Michael writes with an authentic rural voice, drawing on his experiences to open readers to places and lifestyles foreign to many. He has a passion for farming, writing, and gaming, the order of which vary throughout the year. He still works on farms as a tractor driver, mainly to annoy those teachers who claimed no one would pay him to stare out a window all day.

His debut novel Ridgeview Station was released in 2017.

'Wild Dogs' is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia’s answer to Jack Reacher

'Tough, fast and hard – my kind of book.' Lee Child

In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners.

Still coming to terms with his wife’s death – and the part he played in it – the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Amin, from certain execution.

Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Amin's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Fowler, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own.

As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive…

'Wild Dogs is a just-one-more-chapter thriller that kept me up long after lights out.' Jack Heath