Fear Is the Rider

Cook, Kenneth

3.61

210 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1489390553 ISBN 13: 9781489390554

Publisher: Bolinda Audio, 2017

From the author of the classic novel Wake in Fright comes a chillingly brilliant short novel that’s part Wolf Creek and part Duel. Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its center.

It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air.

She smelt her attacker before she saw him.

A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell she’d never encountered before. Not man, not animal, something like carrion, but alive. It seemed to envelop and suffocate her, then became tangible as two arms wrapped around her body and began tearing at her clothing.

A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours.

He’s not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature.

Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent...

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Review:

'Fear is the Rider is a straight out chase and predatory thriller that's pulse-racing in its action-heavy narrative.' --Age/Sydney Morning Herald

'Fantastic, breath-taking, edge of the seat stuff... 4.5/5 stars.' --Col's Criminal Library

About the Author:

Kenneth Cook's classic novel Wake in Fright was published in 1961 and later made into an acclaimed film. Cook wrote more than twenty books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987, aged fifty-seven. Fear Is the Rider is a previously unpublished manuscript from the early 1980s that was recently rediscovered among his papers.

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