![]() ![]() The lively, twisting tale of intrigue has its explosive conclusion on Mawhen the town is attacked by a squadron of Japanese Zeroes, made up of the same pilots who attacked Pearl Habor three months earlier. ![]() Murph quickly falls in with two other outsiders – a beautiful but mysterious teenage girl named Micki and Aboriginal scamp Banjo Hero, whose cheeky personality and passion for pyrotechnics is masking something much deeper.Īll three are trapped in a town crippled by both the fear of Japanese invasion and paranoia over home-grown spying (at one point up to a third of the population of Broome were Japanese, drawn by the pearling industry).Įven as Murph grows closer to Micki, the teenagers find themselves at loggerheads with racist town kids and eventually stumble onto a murder mystery that threatens to envelop everyone they love. Set in early 1942, the story follows 16-year-old American Murph Turner who is reluctantly sent to stay with family in the remote Australian town of Broome after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. ![]() Journalist and YouTuber Dave Reardon’s debut novel The Deep Enders is a rollicking young adult adventure tale which has stirred fresh interest in a devastating but almost unknown chapter of WWII history. DEBUT NOVEL IGNITES YOUTUBE GEN’S HUNGER FOR HIDDEN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY ![]()
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