Ernie Palamarek

Along Came a Swagman Ernie Palamarek

From out of the mists of Aboriginal Dreamtime, a startling discovery is made by a never-do-well Outback opal miner who hauls up a priceless archeological antiquity in a dented barrel of broken dreams. He vanishes without a trace, creating a devious trail of greed and lust. This fascinating third novel in a series features the somewhat-jaded but dashing Rune Erikson who rips through the Outback in a desperate search. Rune and his Aussie girlfriend, Sally Fletcher, enlist the help of her opal-mining father's former partner, Andy, and an aboriginal bush tracker named Black Jack. Can they trust either one? Together, they search for her father in the unforgiving Outback where they find a secret aboriginal tribal council dealing out deadly justice. Coloured by romance and eroticism, this intrigue lures Rune off his sailing ketch Valhalla in Victoria's Fisherman's Wharf into the swirling myths and legends of the Dreamtime of creation in Australia's Outback.