Internationally acclaimed, Say No to Death has been translated into fourteen languages.'Dymphna Cusack... has created a number of attractive, likeable characters, given them a tragic dilemma, and moved them inexorably to a fine dramatic conclusion.' New York Times

    Their romances are futher complicated by the tension of war, with American troops in occupation and where anything could be obtained for a price.

    Based on the author's first-hand knowledge and experience, this is the result not only of years of research but of thousands of kilometres of strenuous travel. Cattle-droving over unknown wildernesses, tragic encounters with Aborigines, the efforts to establish settlements that were cut off from the world and inevitably covered by the relentless growth of vegetation, the first crossing if the continent, the building of the Overland telegraph Line, and the incredible lives of men and women of three generations - this is the stuff of the territory.

    Roy Whitecross was one of the few Australian prisoners-of-war who survived slavery on the Burma-Thailand railway and, in this moving account, he reveals the full horror of the tortures they endured.