James Clayton is enjoying a new daughter, a new house, and a new marriage in an exclusive suburb of Melbourne. Then his boss hits him with a bombshell. Phil Roberts, CEO of the giant construction firm Robco, wants James to push through the building of an inland sea and its feeder pipeline in Central Australia. James recruits his brother Dan to co-project manage the vast undertaking. They battle the landscape, crooks, politicians, terrorists, and the elements across the country's arid interior. The cast of tough construction men must meet the challenge of saboteurs, the politics of state and...