The Hunted - by Gabriel Bergmoser (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The Hunted is an electrifying, heart-pounding, truly immersive thriller--a bestselling debut from the talented Gabriel Bergmoser.

Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot.

When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of unsuspecting customers are thrust into a life-or-death standoff. But who are this group of men and women who will go to any lengths for revenge? And what do they want? Other than no survivors?

A ferociously fast-paced, visceral, tense, and utterly electric novel, unlike anything you've read before. Set on a lonely, deserted highway, deep in the Australian badlands, The Hunted is white-knuckle suspense matched to the fast-paced adrenaline of a Jack Reacher novel. This is unmissable reading.

Review Quotes

"Holy hell. Gabriel Bergmoser's The Hunted is a high-wire act without a net--hold-your-breath tense with prose so sharp it will flay your nerves. And then that wire snaps, unleashing a torrent of carnage that hits like a flash flood. A savage, breathless page-turner that plumbs the depths of human cruelty ... and finds no bottom."

--Susan Walter, USA Today bestselling author of Murder at 30,000 Feet

"Uncompromising, sharp, fresh, and so very fast, this book is something special. Gabriel Bergmoser has talent to burn and it shows. His characters are real and his action is cinematic. Read it. You won't regret it."

--Dervla McTiernan, internationally bestselling author of The Ruin and The Murder Rule

"A perfectly paced, thrilling read with an unrelenting sense of dread and menace...building suspense at every turn of the page. Crime and thriller readers will love this savage Rottweiler of a novel that will clamp its jaws around their throat and shake them to the end."

--Books+Publishing (Australia)

"A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the final, thrilling climax. An extraordinary book."

--M. W. Craven, award-winning author of the Washington Poe series

"An audacious walk on the wildest side of outback noir...A vivid thriller."

--The Sydney Morning Herald

"An original and high-octane read, it makes Deliverance look like Picnic at Hanging Rock."

--The Sunday Times (London)

"This slice of outback noir is...at once exhilarating, gleefully vicious, and totally, race-to-the-finish-line unputdownable."

--The Observer (London)

"Tough, violent, suspenseful, and peopled with great characters, The Hunted could well be the Australian thriller of the year. This is Jack Reacher for adults."

--Canberra Weekly