Papamoa-based indie publisher Sterling Gate Booksannounced this week that Tauranga-born writer-director JamesMorcan has added his action-adventure novel High CountryContract to his ambitious directing slate offilms. Morcan is currentlycelebrating the successful red-carpet cinema screenings ofhis Australian-produced, mystery-drama movie Anno 2020,which represents his directorial debut. As well as directingthat award-winning film he adapted it from his solo-authorednovel of the same name.
A Sterling Gate Booksspokesperson said Morcan usually writes novels incollaboration with his father. “Lance and JamesMorcan, the father-and-son writing team, now have 12published, co-authored novels to their name, including HighCountry Contract, with more in thepipeline. “Several of their novels have been regularvisitors to Amazon’s bestseller lists.
They include thehistorical adventures White Spirit and Into the Americas,and the international thriller The NinthOrphan.” Speaking from Sydney, the younger Morcansaid he was excited by the prospect of directing HighCountry Contract. “It’s the seventh of ourco-authored novels now in development but is the first thatis set in New Zealand.
” Morcan said High CountryContract was a thrilling, fast-paced read set in NewZealand’s South Island high country. “It’s abouta young Kiwi drifter who thinks he has landed the contractof his life when he’s hired to cull deer on a high countryproperty. He quickly changes his mind when he discove.
