It won the Colin Roderick Award in 2007, and was shortlisted for the Fiction category of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

A group of six Australian friends - five white, middle-aged males and one female - combine to compete in a marathon relay swim in treacherous waters off Jamaica.

But even before the race begins fractures appear in the relationships, with drug-taking, hidden secrets and personal crises coming to dominate.

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