Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 A Storm is Born

1 The Gathering Storm

2 The Lull Before the Storm

3 Impending Menace

Part 2 The Sound and the Fury

4 'We could be in for a blow'

5 The Angry Sea

6 Landfall

7 Omega's Path

8 Eye of the Storm

9 Roar of the Devil

10 Riders of the Storm

Part 3 The Aftermath

11 The Sounds of Silence

12 Ham, Jam, Lamb or Spam?

13 Epilogue

Appendix

Acknowledgements

Index

About the Author

Gary McKay was an officer in the Australian army and spent 16 weeks in the clean-up operation of Darwin. In researching this book he interviewed over 50 of the survivors who became 'riders of the storm that wiped out Darwin'.