# The Dead Heart

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- Book: [The Dead Heart](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/the-dead-heart) ([The Dead Heart.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy/the-dead-heart.md))
- Authors: [Douglas Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-kennedy)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-152-0
- Published: 2011-11-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

That dumbshit map. I'd been seduced by it. Seduced by its possibilities. That map had brought me here ... That map had been a serious mistake' The map in question is of Australia, stumbled across in a second-hand bookshop by American journalist Nick Hawthorne, en route to another dead-end hack job in Akron, Ohio. Seduced by all that wilderness, all that NOTHING, Nick decides to put his midlife crisis on hold and light out to the ultimate nowheresville - where a chance encounter throws him into a sun-baked orgy of surf, sex and swill, and a nightmare from which there is no escape. 'Douglas Kennedy might never be allowed into Australia again. This is a crazy, compulsive ultimately serious thriller and a bravura fictional debut from one of our best travel writers' Philip Kerr