The Hitchhiker

From the award-winning author of The Hunted comes a fast-paced, nailbiting outback thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Pushing fifty and reeling from an ugly divorce, Paul has decided it's time for an adventure. With the Bee Gees on the radio and the open road ahead, he sets out into the middle of nowhere, open to whatever comes. But things take a sinister turn when he impulsively decides to pick up a hitchhiker. Clutching a ragged backpack with his eyes locked on the rear-view mirror, it's clear this twitchy young man is running from something. But what? And when the truth is revealed, how far will he - and Paul - go to survive?

A twisted cat and mouse game set in the desolate expanse of the Australian outback, The Hitchhiker is an edge-of-your-set thriller that blends the contained tension of Saw with the sun beaten savagery of Wolf Creek.

'I haven't found a cat-and-mouse game this captivating since Misery.' Jack Heath, author of Kill Your Brother

'A terrifying tale of violence, fear and loneliness, as achingly tender as it is nail-bitingly tense.' Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place

'Two things I will never do again after devouring The Hitchhiker: miss a book by Gabriel Bergmoser; ever get in a car with him...' Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

About the Author

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015, and was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. His first young adult novel, Boone Shepard, was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize, and his second YA book, The True Colour of a Little White Lie, was published in 2021. Andromache Between Worlds is Gabriel's first middle-grade book.