Lasseter's Truth

Written by John Somerset

Narrated by Jacob Z Klimaszewski

Jack Johnson is both lucky and unlucky. He survives the Vietnam war as a decorated helicopter pilot, marries the girl he left behind, and lands on his feet at Australia’s leading advertising agency, as a launch pad to spectacular success in the industry. Lucky, you might say.

But luck can change. Jack is hit with a bogus criminal charge that chases him into the Great Australian Desert, in a quest for Lasseter’s fabled gold reef.

But Jack is not the only one looking. A mysterious Chinese company called Triple Eight is buying up leases in the desert, and people are dying.

Back home, he leaves not only a heartbroken wife but a beautiful and very determined daughter who has had her own problems. Expelled from Australia’s most prestigious public school, Tess Johnson vows to clear her father’s name.

Lasseter’s Truth follows them both as they take on the odds. A story that ranges from the greed of the nineties, into a famous legend of Australia’s outback, with a compelling climax for our own time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Nov 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781528994200

John Somerset

John Somerset is the best-selling author of Lasseter’s Truth and The Excalibur File. He was born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at Geelong Grammar and Melbourne University. He spent his working life in international marketing and latterly advertising, is a winner of the Hoover Award for Marketing, Australia’s premier marketing award of its time and is a qualified PADI scuba diver. He lives and writes at Anglesea, Victoria with his wife Marion and one-eyed kelpie.