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'Nature vs nurture turns out to be a bloodbath
'The wide open outback offers plenty of space for someone to hide. Or to hide a body.
'When wiry youngster Mick Taylor starts as a jackaroo at a remote Western Australian sheep station, he tries to keep his head down among the rough company of the farmhands. But he can't keep the devils inside him hidden for long.
'It turns out he's not the only one with the killer impulse – and the other psychopaths don't appreciate competition. Is Cutter, the station's surly shooter, on to him? And what are the cops really up to as they follow the trail of the dead?
'In the first of a blood-soaked series of Wolf Creek prequel novels, the cult film's writer/director Greg Mclean and horror writer Aaron Sterns take us back to the beginning, when Mick was a scrawny boy, the only witness to the grisly death of his little sister. Origin provides an unforgettably bloody answer to the question of nature vs nurture. What made Mick Taylor Australian horror's most terrifying psycho killer?' (Publisher's blurb)
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Works about this Work
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Killer Return for Two Characters
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 January 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of Origin 2014 single work novel ; Desolation Game 2014 single work novel -
More Blood, Gore from Wolf Creek
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 December 2013; (p. 15)
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Killer Return for Two Characters
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 January 2014; (p. 20)
— Review of Origin 2014 single work novel ; Desolation Game 2014 single work novel -
More Blood, Gore from Wolf Creek
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 December 2013; (p. 15)
Awards
- 2014 winner Australian Shadows Award — Novel
- Western Australia,