The Multiple Effects of RainshadowThere are distant shouts, rifle shots, the pounding of feet across the bridge, the sound of running. A womans scream carves the night then bubbles away. In 1930, the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wifes death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead up to this bloody