{"product_id":"the-leap-by-paul-daley-9781761632525","title":"The Leap","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThink 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to \u003cem\u003eThe Leap\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Leap\u003c\/em\u003e to battle a town conspiring against him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Leap\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eJesustown\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072747651308,"sku":"9781761632525","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5626403482815.jpg?v=1765129928","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-leap-by-paul-daley-9781761632525","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}