Fire Eye
Reviewed By Ian Banks June 9, 2015
Author Peter d'Plesse
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ISBN: 978-0-9942312-3-9
Publisher: Short Stop Press
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Website: http://www.shortstoppress.com
Alexander Delaine, an American, is looking for the wreckage of her grandfather’s aircraft lost in the Northern Territory during World War II.
Jed Mitchell, school principal, a learned man and pilot has a thirst for adventure. His knowledge and love of aircraft sees him teaming up with Alex to try and find the remains of the plane. His goal is to record the location and remains for Military History.
She is a bit of a tough nut and determined, at all cost, to discover just what happened to her grandfather all those years ago. There had long been an outback rumour of a pig hunter who came across the wreck many years before, but little further was recorded. Alex believed this may be her grandfather’s plane. Along with the plane crash story, there is also a legend or two about Fire Eye, a legendary ruby that is supposedly involved with her grandfather and the plane crash.
After flying up the coast to try and pinpoint the location of the wreck, Alex and Jed set out across country when Alex’s past catches up with her. Decker, a jilted psychopath who is out for revenge and his son Jess, have tracked her to Australia, to the Queensland outback and are determined to follow them into the bush.
Decker and his son are accompanied by two aboriginal brothers they have hired as trackers. Decker is so fixated on revenge he shows his intent early, that of killing Alex. He is a violent man and goes so far as to hold one of the trackers hostage to ensure that his brother comes back with the correct information, that of where Alex and Jed intend to camp.
Decker has also heard of the mysterious ruby and this makes him all the more determined in his quest to kill Alex and discover where the ruby has been hidden.
Gun battles, danger and the mystery of the Australian outback all come together in this intriguing, complex and challenging adventure, which will appeal to the lovers of good yarn, Crocodile Dundee style!
There is a plane known as ‘Eva’s a comin’ or ‘Little Eva’ an American B-24 Liberator that crashed in remote, largely inaccessible county northwest of Burketown, Queensland in December 1942 with the loss of six of the ten crew members on board, which gives the plot a good reference point based on a little known segment of Australian history.