McALISTER'S WAY Book 1 in the McAlister Line

!--[if gte mso 9] Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE ![endif]--!--[if gte mso 9] ![endif]--!--[if gte mso 10]![endif]--By his fifteenthbirthday, Danny McAlister in on the run. He has escaped from a draconianboarding school after seriously injuring the principal. His flight takes himthrough Northern Queensland to the New Guinea Highlands where he searches forhis father, lost while fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track. Thrown intoan unforgiving adult world he grows up fast and becomes embroiled in union warsamongst cane cutters, joins the crew of prawn trawler in the Gulf ofCarpentaria, gets mixed up with smugglers and New Guinea's burgeoning aviationindustry. He teams up with ‘Mad’ Monty, an eccentric Afro-American pilot andAngela, the stunning teenage daughter of an English missionary. They mustendure a series of harrowing adventures as they journey through New Guinea'sCentral Highlands and the islands in the Bismarck Sea where they face theirfinal challenge against vicious Filipinopirates and discoverthe final secret of Danny's missing father. ‘...Masterfullyhandled and quite eloquent ...Wonderful.’‘I liked thisbook....it covered issues that needed to be addressed.’2012 Australian CYAWriting Competition Judges