Maralinga is the story of Lieutenant Daniel GArdiner, who accepts a posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of M16 and his undercover operatice Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and an anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates. --back cover.