KIMBERLEY KILL - Smith, Barry

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Résumé :
An international, religious war has broken out across the Middle East between Sunni and Shia Islamic sects, cutting off all energy supplies from that region. Frustrated by its inability to acquire sufficient energy to power its ever expanding economy, China has invaded Russia, annexing the Siberian oil and gas fields and precipitating World War 3. Cyber warfare has neutralised global defence communications creating a US-China stand-off and the only remaining operational satellite communication base in the Kimberley is threatened by invading Indonesian, special-forces. All that stands in their way is a small Norforce patrol backed by an Aboriginal tribe, whose female leader is intent on avenging the murder of her father, their Elder, and the desecration of their Wandjina guardian. Three strong minded and determined people-the devout Moslem leader of the Indonesian Kopassus force, the MIT trained daughter of an assassinated Aboriginal elder and the middleaged, former SAS, gas platform engineer and part-time leader of the Norforce patrol-strive to contest and impose their conflicting beliefs and loyalties when they compete and clash in a hunt to the death across the harsh but beautiful Kimberley wilderness.