Deadfall

Fire is walking down the ranges, and the only way out of Tasmania's southwest wilderness is a river nobody has run in a decade. Hobart paramedic Luke Turner signed on for twelve days on the Carnac because his oldest friend, Rob Collins, asked him to. Then a fresh chainsaw stump, a hidden drum of helicopter fuel and a stranded ecologist guarding proof of a two-thousand-year-old forest show Luke that someone wants this country to burn.