A hiking trip in the Giralang ranges intended to be a team building exercise goes horribly wrong when one of the five hikers disappears and the others struggle to find their way back to base camp. As a search is mounted for Alice Russell the AFP becomes involved. Alice, it turns out, was a whistleblower, about to hand over final documentary evidence against the company she worked for. Her four colleagues each give a slightly different account of what took place on the hike and the police are unsure if they are dealing with an accident or a crime. Alternating between the story of what happened on the hike and the investigation and search for Alice, Force of Nature is as tense and compelling as Harper’s debut novel The Dry.
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