An action-packed adventure story from master storyteller Des Hunt. It's the school holidays and Zac thinks he might go crazy with boredom. He's living in exile with his disgraced father on the remote terawhiti Station on Wellington's wild southwest coast. then Zac and his dad witness a boat sink during a storm. Investigating further, Zac finds a set of unusual animal prints on the beach. Whose boat is it? And what creature could have made the prints? Soon armed men are prowling the coast, and threatening Zac, his friends and his family. He must do all he can to protect the Phantom of terawhiti from those intent on hunting it down.
