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The Ghost Train and the Scarlet Moon - Jack Roney

The Ghost Train and the Scarlet Moon

By: Jack Roney

Paperback | 20 August 2022

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Labour Day 1982 - a 'super-blue-blood-moon' looms high in the sky, thirty-five years since it last appeared. Three boys set out on an adventure, exploring the trail of a ghost train long since forgotten. It is also the 35th anniversary of the Camp Mountain train crash, Queensland's worst rail disaster, which claimed the lives of sixteen people and seriously injured many others. One of the boys vanishes without a trace. Suspicion lingers. Friendships shatter. Lives are ruined. Years go by. The story fades. A retired detective never forgets. Labour Day, 2017 - another of the trio goes missing in baffling circumstances. Left behind and searching for answers, Toby McIntyre sets out to uncover the truth behind the disappearances of his two best friends, exactly thirty-five years apart to the day. The train crash and the rare lunar event are somehow connected and reveal clues to solve the mystery. An unlikely link to the past holds the key. Toby must sacrifice everything for a chance to be reunited with his friends and to change the course of history.

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"Inspired by true events, Roney's elastic time-hop and coming-of-age tale whisks us along a rugged, eucalypt-lined track. A page-turner pulsing with the power of collective memory and endless possibility," L. E. Daniels, author of 'Serpent's Wake: A Tale for the Bitten'; "Impossible to put down, this novel is an express train into the inexplicable space of 'what-if?' and 'could-it-be?" Gary Crew, bestselling author of 'Strange Objects'; "Speculative fiction that helps keep alive the memory of Queensland's worst train crash. Historical facts have been woven into an intriguing story with a distinct local flavour. Well worth a read!" Harry Colfer - author 'Dead Regular'

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