The first novel from Australian author, David John Lloyd: the 'Third Generation' tells the story of a battling young man, James Willard. After James' twin brother is killed in Iraq, James; grieving and isolated, turns increasingly to drugs and alcohol to cope, until it finally overwhelms him. With the help of family and friends, James manages to pull his life back together and he finds the strength to get on with life, and, for a little while, things look up. James meets and falls in love with a girl. He moves into a house with some University friends and his world opens up to new possibilities. Meanwhile, in the hills of Adelaide, a strange new species of predator has begun expanding territories, taking them into contact with farmyards and human habitation, causing some devastating stock losses. Then the beasts move onto human prey. One night, James passes a stranded man he recognises on the highway on his way home from work. The next day the man is declared missing. Soon after his body is found... eaten. Could James have saved a life? How could he have known what was going to happen? Why is his heart so twisted with guilt and anxiety? Why the morbid fascination with that spot where the man died? And what was that thing he thought he saw? Third Generation. Beware the drop bear