Lost Man

''[A] haunting family mystery'' Sunday Times ''A riveting, deeply atmospheric read'' Mail on Sunday ''Just as good - perhaps even better - than Harper''s excellent thrillers The Dry and Force of Nature'' Observer He had started to remove his clothes as logic had deserted him, and his skin was cracked. Whatever had been going through Cameron''s mind when he was alive, he didn''t look peaceful in death. Two brothers meet at the remote border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of the outback. In an isolated part of Australia, they are each other''s nearest neighbour, their homes hours apart. They are at the stockman''s grave, a landmark so old that no one can remember who is buried there. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. The Bright family''s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. Something