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Taipan: THE KARRKAY IRON: Alira Hong Robinson AKA "Taipan" Story
Paperback
Series: Taipan: The Karrkay Stories, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A sacred nulla-nulla - a 4,000-year-old ceremonial club carved from black wattle heartwood by an ancestor called the one who stands between - is stolen from the Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre's restricted collection. It encodes the deepest law of the gorge: the law of stillness before striking, the law of depth.
Professor Gerald Claypan (archaeological conservator) and his wife Desta Claypan (high-end replica maker) executed a coordinated heist. Gerald served as a visible decoy at the front of the building while Desta used an undocumented rear-wall access point (found in 1987 heritage plans) to swap the genuine artefact for a carefully weighted replica in under a minute. Their plan: mould the original, sell it to a Singapore collector, and profit from replicas.
The ProtagonistAlira Robinson, 18, Kuku Yalanji woman, living independently in North Cairns. She feels the gorge's distress from 71 kilometres away - a frequency tuned through years of her grandmother Jeanie's teaching. She is also a gifted golfer (seven handicap) whose understanding of the line in golf mirrors her understanding of Country: you cannot force it, only feel it and commit.
The Team- Kija - Alira's closest ally, calm under pressure, systems thinker, handles research and data
- Sapphire - relentlessly curious pure researcher
- Wilfred - extraordinary structural memory, had already been surveilling the cultural centre overnight on instinct
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