Three generations have wrested a farm from virgin bush and the McCorkindales share a remote valley with the wild deer that Hamish McCorkindale hunted in his youth and now farms in a nascent deer farming industry.
Hamish is duty bound to carry on his legacy…. until fate intervenes. A powerful corporation wants the land that holds his heart and a police Armed Offenders Squad want him for murder. Even for those born on the ‘Coast’ resilience may not be enough.
Memorable characters contribute to the events that follow; a Vietnam vet helicopter meat hunter, a vindictive policeman, a fisherman home from Antarctic seas, and a lawyer whose connections go to the very top in New Zealand's capital city.
This is a quintessential New Zealand story. No other place can bring together the unique strands of this saga. It is a gripping pioneer adventure, a love story of a man for his wife and the rugged land that formed him, and a tale of his fight against arrogant power defending the legacy entrusted to him. Here, both hunted man and wild stag, merge with the world of raw nature that bred them both.....
A product of small town New Zealand, author Geoffrey Waring went to sea at sixteen. After ten years wandering a wider world on NZ and Norwegian cargo ships he returned to NZ for deck officers examinations, but faster travel appealed and he gained a Commercial Pilot’s licence in 1967.
Over thirty years he's flown bi-planes to wide body jetliners. He’s lived and worked in places diverse as Port Moresby, Port of Spain, Jeddah and Johannesburg during his travels. After 40 expatriate years he returned home in 1997 to farm deer. He now lives on a lifestyle property where he indulges urges to write and talk to animals.
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