This is Billy. He’s an Aboriginal boy from the Australian bush. He has to go Walkabout to the big city of Sydney to find some girls. The thing is, he’s never even seen a girl before and all he’s got to wear is a loincloth. Awkward!

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This is Amber. She’s Billy’s polar opposite, being a blue-eyed blonde from the city.

Billy finds her cold, wet and upset down a darkened alley in the city wearing nothing more than a bloodied pair of pink pyjamas. We don’t know any more about Amber at this stage, but it’s safe to assume that she’s run away from home.

Life was far from easy for Billy. The scars on his chest were a gift from his mother. Thoughtful like that she is.

Don’t worry, you won’t miss anything, you’ll experience every gruesome detail in “TRIBAL SCARRING.” Hehehe

Do you like his necklace? I’d really like to tell you more about it but I couldn’t possible spoil the moment when Amber is checking it out. I had tears running down my face writing it.

“BUDGIE SMUGGLERS.” Too funny.

This is Billy’s returning boomerang. It flies left because he’s right handed. He also carries a heavy, non-returning boomerang that he uses like a flying club.

This is Billy’s knife. He chipped it himself from an amethyst crystal and made the handle from the leg of a wombat.

How cool is Billy’s hat? It’s made from the head of a big red kangaroo. The biggest his great-grandfather Cobar had ever seen. His father, Mandu, turned it into a hat as a gift for his initiations.

That’s his hardwood spear you can see too, along with his woomera.

You can’t see his favourite weapon but you’ll be reading about it in the series.

This is Moe. He’s one of three brothers: Larry, Curly and Moe. They’re nearly impossible to tell apart.

Barely bigger than a Chihuahua and built like a finely tuned sprint athlete, they’d race you to the finish line and tear your toes off along the way if you weren’t careful.

Not everyone thinks they’re adorable, a greasy, grey-haired, mongrel old man wants them dead.

Where’s Curly?

He’s in this picture but you can’t see him. He’s in his favourite spot. Do you

know where that is?

This is Larry. He’s the leader of the gang.

This is Diesel. He’s the son of a mongrel old man that Billy speared. He wants revenge and he knows where Billy is.

“BULLIES” is an edge of your seat episode with an ending that will leave you gobsmacked, right before you lose your load laughing your guts out.

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It’s not until book 4 that we finally get a gander at Billy’s face in “BUDGIE SMUGGLERS.” Handsome devil isn’t he?

But of course now we have to wonder what Amber looks like. For now, she’s all yours. Imagine her any way you will. A little button nose or a horribly big honker. Gleaming white teeth or bent yellow buckies. Perhaps you’d like her to have a freckle or two, or maybe a cute little mole in just the right spot? One eyebrow or two? It’s up to you.

One of Billy’s other weapons is visible in this picture too, his fishing line. He loves fishing, or at least he used to, until he saw how big the fish were in Sydney harbour (BUDGIE SMUGGLERS).

Can you see his loincloth? He wears it over his shorts. Not sure if it’s a case of old habits die hard or it’s now more of a tool belt than anything. He’s always tucked his boomerangs and knife into the cord.

He was excited about his new shorts. The zipper and press-studs fascinated him. It’s easy to forget that basically, he’s stepped straight out of the stone age. Everything is new to him. Especially girls. He particularly likes the ones in bikinis.

The URBAN HUNTERS Series Life was normal for Billy, living hidden in the bush with the last of his kind. Until the spirit of his mother told him in a dream to go Walkabout where the whitefellas live. Find some girls or watch his clan of men die out, ending the Dreamtime forever.

He may well have stayed in bed if he’d known what lay ahead: the fight of his life against wildlife, torturous initiations to become a man at only 13, and Sydney, a strange place that may well kill an Aboriginal boy in a loincloth. Could life get anymore difficult? Why yes it could, he could fall in love with a beautiful, blue–eyed, city girl …

Suffering similar tragedies a world apart and forced to grow up before their time, Billy and Amber must find a new future, one beyond anything either of them could ever have imagined.

Before Billy’s search for girls begins, he must first survive his older brother’s sickening game with a sun–bloated dead kangaroo. A twisted tale of cat and mouse explodes with sweet biscuits, a flooded cave crawling with bats and a challenge to retrieve a crystal. Can Billy pull off the impossible and earn his brother’s respect?

Before Billy’s search for girls begins he must become a man. He fights for his life against wildlife, endures initiation with the slice of a knife where a boy never wants a knife to go, and burns under the coals of a fire for his Tribal Scarring. Will the man emerge?

Billy’s search for girls begins, if only he knew what one looked like.

The city turns out to be a dangerous place for a boy from the bush and with lives at stake, Billy’s forced to call upon his ancestors for help.

A beautiful blue–eyed city girl appears before him down a darkened alley. But all is not well — Amber’s covered in blood and mud and stained in tears. How will she react to a near naked Aboriginal boy wearing a dead kangaroo for a hat?

Before Billy’s search for girls begins, he must first survive his older brother’s sickening game with a sun–bloated dead kangaroo, fight for his life against wildlife, endure initiation with the slice of a knife where a boy never wants a knife to go, and burn under the coals of a fire for his Tribal Scarring. Can he pull off the impossible and earn his brother’s respect?

Billy’s search for girls begins, if only he knew what one looked like. The city is a dangerous place for a boy from the bush and with lives at stake, he’s forced to call upon his ancestors for help.

A beautiful blue–eyed city girl appears before him down a darkened alley. But all is not well — Amber’s covered in blood and mud and stained in tears. How will she react to a near naked Aboriginal boy wearing a dead kangaroo for a hat?

Billy’s found a girl but can he keep her? How will Amber feel about a fat rump of rat for dinner, or Billy in a bikini? And how will she react to his daring attempt at a comforting hug? Poor Billy hasn’t got a clue.

And what is to become of Larry, Curly and Moe after making a meal of a dying man?

Billy speared a mongrel old man in the leg and now his son wants revenge. He’s big, he’s dangerous and he knows where Billy is. How can two kids and three pups possibly defend themselves against such a massive man?

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When he’s not writing, Gary’s hunting deer for the freezer or putting around the lake fishing for flathead.

He’s a Toolmaker by trade, a successful inventor and now, a writer. Urban Hunters is the culmination of his inventiveness, his enthusiasm for the outdoors and his fun–filled sense of humour.

Gary Taaffe Gary lives in a small coastal town in NSW, Australia. There’s open ocean on one side, a massive saltwater lake on the other and enough virgin bushland in the surrounding areas to lose yourself for a week.

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