The Roving Party

Rohan Wilson

The Roving Party
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Soho Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
20 January 2015
Pages
288
ISBN
9781616954826

The Roving Party

Rohan Wilson

[An] exceedingly powerful debut. Wilson’s compelling story carries us through forest and over plains, leaving a trail of dead men.

-Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune

1829, Tasmania. A group of men-convicts, a farmer, two free black traders, and Black Bill, an aboriginal man brought up from childhood as a white man-are led by Jon Batman, a notorious historical figure, on a roving party. Their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize. Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena. A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.

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