Infamy by Lenny Bartulin

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages have sunned.

William Burr, the son of an English settler in South America, had a steady job hunting mahogany pirates in British Honduras. One day, injured and recovering after a jungle skirmish, he receives a letter from John McQuillan, his old friend and now Chief Police Magistrate in Hobart Town, with the offer of a reward for the capture of a notorious outlaw - Colonel George Bloody Arthur, offences including impersonating a Lieutenant Governor.

Burr sets sail for the Antipodes, though with little idea of what to expect. He arrives in Van Diemen's Land, the most isolated and feared penal colony of the British Empire, 1830 to find a world of corruption, brutality and mystical beauty.

Following the trail of Brown George Coyne, the charismatic outlaw leader of a band of escaped convicts, Burr is soon rushing headlong through the surreal, mesmerising Vandemonian wilderness, where he will discover not only the violent truth of British settlement but also the love of a woman, and the friendship of an Aboriginal tracker, himself an outcast on an island of outcasts. (back cover)

Historical fiction.