Every young man is tested, but only the strong survive. Danny Molloy, a tough street kid from Brooklyn, is about to face the biggest test of his life . . . in the Australian outback. — After a hasty departure from the U.S... more ». where he was in trouble with the law, Danny confronts his father, a down and out drug smuggler, who abandoned him as a young boy ten years earlier. Upon Danny s arrival at his father s remote ranch, his bitter recriminations eventually bring him into conflict with a willful but alluring half sister and his beautiful stepmother. But this is only the beginning to a nightmarish ordeal that includes encounters with aboriginal mysticism and ruthless Australian gangsters. Nothing in America has prepared Danny for what he must face in Australia s outback. Danny must earn his rite of passage by overcoming incredible odds and surviving the adventure of a lifetime.« less