Burrabooka Outback Australia - Tom Penna - Bog

Locally the Burrabooka community is rocked by the police raids and subsequent arrests of both a local pastoralist worker and a shearer - their drug lab and livestock thieving crimes divide the district and anger leads to the opening of 'never to be healed' wounds. Three thousands kilometres to the north Ted Burns had his own issues to deal with. As Darcy Stapleton's girlfriend, Carly Maidment, slept in a charter boat cabin, the American Vietnam vet and mission driver, Trent Davis and Burns slept in swags with mosquito nets on the deck. This Coral Sea voyage would smuggle the four American hitmen and their gear onto the Australian mainland to start their missions - execute four Australian criminals. Burns and Maidment provide the Intel for the first hit - in Manly, a Sydney suburb - they pave the way for the hitmen to complete the first mission by eliminating a lowlife drug dealer who had previously beaten a girl to mental incapacity. But the mission has drawbacks - things go wrong. The four Americans then blend into Australian society with orders to regroup for the next hit. Burns questions the Rich Man's Justice theory and continually faces the options of running or staying with the missions. In his downtime he finds romance with divorcee nurse Sally North and then friendship with two Swedish backpackers. One of the girls is raped and beaten by the 'Silver Citroen Gang'. After the attack Burns, Sally North and the victim, Anna, find refuge on Terangi Downs. Then after fleeing from a car accident and leaving Sally North things complicate when Burns witnesses a hit on one of Anna's attackers. Burns realises that there is another American team operating in Australia. The body count starts and Burns confronts the Citroen gang boss. Disastrous consequences follow and the plot thickens. While Australian organised crime gangs are puzzled by events Australian and American law enforcement do know what is happening and want a piece of the action. Ted Burns is a person of interest and right in the middle of all of it!