In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors.
Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet. Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone audiobook from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper.īrothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. "Australian narrator Stephen Shanahan returns for another knockout performance.It's a slow and bleak affair, but no less enthralling than Harper's and Shanahan's previous efforts." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner A cast of characters who all have secrets and who make you wonder did Cameron kill himself or did one of them do the unspeakable.” The descriptions of the scenery and life in the outback would be enough alone to keep up your interest, but added to that is a cast of characters who you feel like you know intimately by the end of the book. The Lost Man is a story of family dynamics, of abuse and of lots of what ifs. If suicide, what might have driven this charismatic well liked young man with a wife and two young daughters to take his life. Was it something sinister or was it suicide as the authorities seem to believe. It is the story of the Bright brothers told from the perspective of Nathan – the oldest of the three – as he tries to make sense of how his middle brother, Cameron, ended up alone in the middle of the desert dead of dehydration when he had a well-stocked and working car not far away. It is a beautifully written character driven novel where the extreme hardship of living and surviving in the outback is one of the major characters. “Jane Harper has created yet another masterpiece, this one a standalone set in the outback region of Queensland Australia.
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