TY - BOOK AU - Trant, Michael, TI - Wild dogs SN - 9781761046773 U1 - A823.4 23/eng/20220127 PY - 2022/// CY - North Sydney, NSW PB - Penguin Random House Australia, KW - Wild dogs KW - Fiction KW - Trappers KW - Human smuggling KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - fast KW - Australian fiction KW - lcsh N2 - In the drought-ridden rangelands of Western Australia, Gabe Ahern makes his living trapping wild dogs for local station owners. Still coming to terms with his wife's death -- and the part he played in it -- the old bushman leads a solitary life. Until one morning, when he rescues a young Afghan man, Altair, from certain execution. Now, with a gang of people smugglers on his tail and the lives of Altair's family on the line, Gabe is drawn into a ruthless game of cat and mouse. His main opponent is Chase Hunter, a kangaroo hunter with bush skills as wily and sharp as his own. As the old dogger and roo-shooter go head to head, Gabe will need all his cunning to come out of this alive ER -