"A taut cat-and-mouse game with potent characters." — Kirkus Reviews

In the blink of an eye, a fisherman's idyllic vacation turns into a terrifying struggle for survival. One moment he is fly fishing a remote river in the icy mountains of New Zealand. The next, he finds himself on the wrong end of a manhunt that only he and his pursuers are aware of.

As he tries to contend with killers on his trail, the fisherman must also deal with starvation, the harsh and uncompromising wilderness, and the turmoil within his malnourished and frightened mind.

Meanwhile more than 1000 kilometres north, amid an epidemic of crystal meth (known as ice or P), Auckland detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding a body found floating in the harbour. Pieces of the jigsaw are scattered as if blown away by the wild New Zealand wind. Is there a link between the harbour body and the invisible manhunt in remote mountains. Will the investigation and the fisherman's ordeal collide in the rocky, forested wilderness, or are the cases uniquely sinister? A brazen Maori detective is on the job to salvage justice from lawlessness.

Ice Hunters is a fast-paced, chilling thriller that pits one man against nature and his fellow humans, and simultaneously weaves a powerful warning about illicit drugs into a gripping outdoor survival story. Set against a backdrop of the beautiful but unforgiving Southern Alps, the novel delivers danger and suspense from all sides.

If you like your crime fiction thrillers full of suspense and action-packed, your detectives rugged yet compassionate, and told in a ruthless no-holds-barred manner, then Ice Huntersis a must-read.

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