Itinerant surfer Marty travels to Coral Bay in search of a missing cousin. Everybody knows more than he does but nothing is as it seems. He teams up with English waitress Rose, looking for her backpacker brother. They discover a people smuggling racket but there's something more sinister. Eliminating Marty becomes top of the smugglers' agenda but they don't reckon on a bungarra named Horatio. Marty sees things in a different light during a night dive on the reef.

Bernie Spain was born in Melbourne and moved to Western Australia in his teens. He spent several years working up north at various places in different capacities and his first two novels take place in the state's rugged hinterland. He also has a handful of Picture books and a Middle grade Chapter Book under his belt and is working on a crime fiction thriller set in Melbourne where it all started. He is married with 3 daughters and when not occupied with the 2 R's (forget about 'Rithmetic) he enjoys golf and following the Mighty Hawks.