Outlaws of the Kimberley Underworld - the true-life story of Smokey, king of the Kimberley horse-duffers by Geoff Allen

Over 100 years ago, as the Boer War came to an end, the rugged Kimberley Range formed the roughest and most remote cattle-country in Australia. It was five days hard ride from the nearest township of Wyndham to Smokey's Kimberley Underworld hideout. The police patrols sent to arrest King Smokey faced a daunting task. The few passses through the forbidding King Leopold Ranges were guarded by fierce Aboriginal warriors known as Munjons. The Munjons waged a bitter war with the white stockmen, but for every spearing there were savage reprisals and massacres.

For Smokey and his loyal teenage follower Colt, there is the ultimate freedom of fast-riding outlaws. Whether it's stealing mobs of horses or seducing young women, hunting down a brutal murderer or escaping from the mounted troopers with their black trackers, sex in the billabong with Pixie or Jilly or riding an outsider in the Wyndham Cup, the Colt leads a life of which every young man dreams.

This action packed thriller makes the American Wild West look like a kindergarten.