{"product_id":"fear-is-the-rider-book-kenneth-cook-9781925240856","title":"Fear is the Rider","description":"\u003ci\u003eIt was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air.\u003cbr\u003e She smelt her attacker before she saw him.\u003cbr\u003e A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell she'd never encountered before. Not man, not animal, something like carrion, but alive. It seemed to envelop and suffocate her, then became tangible as two arms wrapped around her body and began tearing at her clothing.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours.\u003cbr\u003e He's not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature.\u003cbr\u003e Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent...\u003cbr\u003e From the author of the classic novel \u003ci\u003eWake In Fright\u003c\/i\u003e comes a chillingly brilliant short novel that's part \u003ci\u003eWolf Creek\u003c\/i\u003e and part \u003ci\u003eDuel\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eFear Is the Rider\u003c\/i\u003e is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWake In Fright\u003c\/i\u003e was made into an internationally acclaimed film. \u003ci\u003eFear Is the Rider\u003c\/i\u003e is a previously unpublished manuscript from the 1980s that was recently rediscovered among Kenneth Cook's papers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'This lost Ozploitation gem is pure horror adrenaline, as characters and reader alike are hunted\u003cbr\u003e by a relentless golem-the nightmare outback monster we've always feared.' \u003cb\u003eChris Flynn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49916042084625,"sku":"GOR013812808","price":4.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50061378978065,"sku":"GOR008071766","price":4.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51075149136145,"sku":"GOR008560094","price":4.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1925240851.jpg?v=1750835678","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/fear-is-the-rider-book-kenneth-cook-9781925240856","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}