Bordertown

A Broken Man’s Odyssey.
A Broken Community’s Only Hope.

An Australian outback crime thriller — by someone who’s live it. Former police Detective.

Seven women missing. One murder he’s told to ignore. A police force he can’t trust. Detective Bo Campbell didn’t choose this posting. Now he has to choose what kind of cop he wants to be.

🏆 Runner-up — HarperCollins Banjo Prize

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Detective Robert "Bo" Campbell is in serious trouble. After a bungled drug raid leaves his best friend and partner dead by his own hand, Bo faces the sack — or worse, jail. To buy him time, the force exiles him to a remote outback posting on the border. A place to lie low. A place where no one will notice him. But the border isn't quiet. Six Aboriginal women have vanished.

Secret meetings happen in the dark. The local police are bound together by something Bo doesn't yet understand — and on his very first day, he's told to look the other way on a fresh murder. Bo Campbell came to the border to disappear. Now he's the only one asking questions — and the only one anyone wants gone.

Bordertown is a story of redemption, survival, and one man's refusal to stay silent. Set in the unforgiving Australian bush of the early 1980s, it's a cop story with a twist — and a journey that won't let you go.

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Gregory James spent twenty years as a detective with the New South Wales Police Force in both metropolitan Sydney and the remote Australian outback. He worked homicide cases, fire investigations, and the kind of files most Australians only ever read about in the papers. Bordertown is fiction. The case behind it wasn't. When Greg writes about the weight of a bungled raid, the politics of a country police station, or what really happens when a community closes ranks, he's writing from twenty years inside the room. That's the difference.

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"Crime fiction at its best casts strong light into the darkest corners of human history. Bordertown has the spotlights turned up as high as they will go."

— Karen Chisholm, AustCrimeFiction

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"Packed to the gills with action... a flat-out police procedural that doesn't pull any punches."

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