[1] He wrote this and Dark Outlaw as historical novels while researching his large non fiction book Wild Colonial Boys.
"[4] Smith's Weekly said Clune "can give you the scenes, he can describe their faces, their huts, their names and tneir clothes.
"[5] The Sunday Times said it was "not a very deep character analy-sis - about half-way between actions and basic motives.
And in places the story lumbers and the intelligence of the reader is under-estimated by pointing out tacticns that are obvious by the dialogue.
"[6] ABC Weekly declared "Frank Clune has used both hands to apply his colours, and if at times the story degenerates into something of the old penny-dreadful it is alwavs interesting.