[2] Force of Nature is set in the thickly forested mountains north-east of Melbourne and features Federal Agent Aaron Falk.

Writing in The Guardian, Amanda Coe called the novel "a gripping procedural, with the narrative chops and assured pace of a Hollywood thriller."

She noted a number of traits found in the author's earlier works as "Harper deploys end-of-chapter hooks and narrative misdirections with aplomb.

"[4] After the novel's initial publication in Australia by Pan Macmillan in 2017,[1] it was reprinted as follows: The novel was also translated into Swedish in 2017; Chinese, German, French, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Greek and Croatian in 2018; Norwegian, Hungarian, Spanish, Polish, Japanese, Indonesian, Ukrainian and Czech in 2019; Bulgarian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Russian, Persian, and Romanian in 2020; Portuguese and Latvian in 2021; and Turkish and Arabic in 2022.

[8] The novel was adapted as a film in 2024 under the title Force of Nature: The Dry 2, with Eric Bana in the lead role of Aaron Falk and also featuring Anna Torv and Deborra-Lee Furness.