BOOK REVIEW: No Trace

No Trace (Penguin Australia, $32.99, May 16) has you on the edge of your seat.

"Did you have to kill them all?"

It's the question Gabe Ahern has been running from since he bust open a major criminal operation and left a dozen men dead.

He knows that one day the bad guys will come for revenge.

A skilled dog-trapper, Gabe has one rule: leave no sign, leave no trace.

And for the last year he's been successfully hiding out on a friend's remote cattle property in the Pilbara.

But when Goldmont Station opens its gates to a bunch of city folk eager for an authentic outback experience, Gabe can feel eyes on his back.

Are all these visitors really tourists?

In the space of 24 hours, the station's helicopter falls from the sky, the phones and internet go down and one of the guests turns up dead.

With major flooding suddenly cutting off all exit roads, Gabe fears he's as trapped as the dogs he hunts.

And that his bloody past has finally caught up with him.

Michael Trant is a WA country boy now living in Perth after a variety of careers ranging from farmer, marine draftsman, pastoralist and pot washer.

Michael writes with an authentic rural voice, drawing on his experiences to open readers to places and lifestyles foreign to many.

He has a passion for farming, writing, and gaming, the order of which vary throughout the year.

He still works on farms as a tractor driver, mainly to annoy those teachers who claimed no one would pay him to stare out a window all day.