Terror Australis

Joe (Yousef) Malik, a Sydney-born Muslim and Australian Federal Police Inspector, is on an end-of-season rugby trip in Bali with his mates, October 12, 2002, when a terrorist's bomb explodes in Paddy's bar but he gets out alive. He is promoted to head of the AFP Counter-Terrorist Unit. Aided by two US specialists in electronic surveillance from the FBI and CIA, the Counter-Intelligence team puts a Sydney Mosque and a detention centre under 24/7 electronic scrutiny. Malik and an AFP female colleague go under cover as an illegal refugee married couple into the detention centre. Eventually Malik infiltrates a terrorist enclave led by evil Abu al-Hussein, who plans to break out, with the help of local activists, and destroy an iconic Sydney target. The race is on to avert this unspeakable act of horror and destruction…