He set out to prove he could stay on the wagon. He discovered his weakness made him strong.

Recovering alcoholic Richard West has never exorcised the ghosts of his worst tragedy. Even thirteen years later, the sixty-two-year-old hasn't gotten over the car crash that took the lives of his son and ex-wife. With guilt eating him alive and a need to put his sobriety to the test, he buys a motorcycle and departs on an impulsive journey into the Australian Outback.

Attempting to circumnavigate the continent in just sixty-two days, he sees visions of his dead son everywhere acting as a guiding light. But when he meets and forms a friendship with a woman in a yellow drop-top Bug, she becomes a major threat to staying sober. And with each temptation, the unopened bottle of Johnnie Walker in his saddlebag calls to him louder and louder.

Will he drown his sorrow in a familiar failure, or can he emerge from his soul-searching quest the man he aspires to be?

IF is a moving memoir of an extraordinary ride to redemption. If you like flawed heroes, real-life road novels, and battles overcoming grief, then you'll love Richard West's touching adventure.

Buy IF to join one man's pursuit of inner peace today!

"This memoir is an explosion of rich lived experience, humour, gravitas and poignancy. IF tells the story of an outback contemporary Australia not seen by many, and documents the struggle of a man coming to terms with himself, his past and his future." Paul Williams.

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