A stylish and brilliantly paced thriller from a great Australian writer. 'You don't blow a person's head away, and then shoot him in the back.' Ken Cardinal pulled the sheet back over the body . Ken Cardinal is summoned to Australia to identify the murdered body of his son, a laser physicist. His search for the killer - and the motive - takes him from Sydney to remote Arnhem Land and across Asia to the wilds of Cambodia's Cardomom Mountains. Along the way he is beguiled by a smart investigative journalist. Both are caught up in the web of betrayal, and discover that the hunters can become the hunted.