And One Wise Man Came Out From The East

Brian Stead sends Peter Thornton straight from Alaska to Western Australia to look quietly into a quarrel among Mogul staff in his home country. When their helicopter strays off course, Thornton and geophysicist Erica Taplow are stranded in the searing heat of the outback with no radio and no salt tablets, an ordeal that leads him to question what working for Mogul is making of him.