Description

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Powerful and relentless, the hunger pursues you like a wild beast without respite. You can resist it for hours, even days, but it eventually overwhelms your reason with its desperate desire to be satisfied. Eat or be eaten—that was the terrible choice facing the eight convict bolters from Macquarie Harbour, Australia's most remote and brutal penal colony. Lost and starving after a week in a wilderness no white man had ever crossed, order breaks down when one finally gives voice to their secret thoughts, "I could eat a piece of a man." Soon betrayal, lies, and murder reign and the convicts start to fear each other more than the spears of the Aborigines. Who'll be served next? Will any of them reach the settled areas alive? Bloodlust is the story of this terrible journey as seen through the eyes of Irishman Alexander Pearce, who discovers what happens when men are pushed past their limits and what lies in the dark shadows beyond.

About the Author

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Nick Bleszynski is the author of the bestselling Shoot Straight, You Bastards!: The Truth Behind the Killing of ‘Breaker’ Morant and You’ll Never Take Me Alive: The Life and Death of Bushranger Ben Hall.

Praise For…

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"A ripper yarn!"  —Bryce Courtenay on You'll Never Take Me Alive

"A ripping yarn that examines grave questions of morality and the value of human life"  —The Sydney Morning Herald on Shoot Straight, You Bastards!

"An eye-opening version of the most controversial killing of two Australians in war time ever known."  —Daily Telegraph on Shoot Straight, You Bastards!

"A comprehensive exploration of the legend of Breaker Morant … compelling reading."  —Sunday Times South Africa on Shoot Straight, You Bastards!