Undead Kelly - Timothy Bowden

Melbourne, 1880

Something has gone very wrong.

There are things appearing deep in the Australian outback – blighted things. The dead are rising, and stalking the lonely bush tracks. Officially, they do not exist, their attacks attributed to the work of natives or madmen. But one man knows they are real, and is determined to expose the truth.

Ned Kelly.

Dubbed ‘Undead Kelly’, Ned desires one thing – to expose those responsible for unleashing this plague and hold them to account. But Ned is imprisoned, facing trial for the murder of three policemen, and is sure to hang.

His plan hinges on his one ally – a Remittance Man, an English wastrel banished to the colonies by his embarrassed family, paid to disappear. A cynical man, more at risk of being devoured by his own internal monsters than the undead. Can he find the courage to emulate Ned, rise above expectations and circumstance to become the saviour of the colony?

Because somebody has to stop the rot…