An Empty Coast

Chapter 42

Furey, and his local counterpart, Inspector Sannie van Rensburg, go against official orders and track the kidnappers to the coastal waters of Mozambique, and then north to the sh.o.r.es of Lake Malawi. Sannie can"t resist becoming involved in Tom"s mission, even risking her job to help him.

Africa is a land of danger as well as beauty, and soon lives are at risk. The hunt spirals into a fight to the death, and involves a crime beyond anyone"s worst imaginings . . .

Safari.

A volatile Zimbabwe and the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo are the battlefields for a deadly game of cat and mouse in Africa"s wildlife wars.

Canadian researcher Mich.e.l.le Parker jumps at the chance to visit the famed mountain gorillas, but she is wary of the man giving her this opportunity professional big-game hunter Fletcher Reynolds.



Fletcher represents all Mich.e.l.le has fought against the slaughter of animals for material gain but she finds herself increasingly drawn to his power and is rea.s.sured by his apparent support for the stamping out of poaching.

Into this mix steps ex-SAS officer Shane Castle. He has been recruited by Fletcher to spearhead the anti-poaching campaign. Shane is a man who has seen what bullets can do to both human and animal and he makes Mich.e.l.le start to doubt the choices she has made . . .

African Sky.

Paul Bryant hasn"t been able to get back in a plane since a fatal bombing mission over Germany. So, instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school at k.u.malo air base, Rhodesia.

Pip Lovejoy, a volunteer policewoman, is also trying to suppress painful memories. When Felicity Langham, a high-profile WAAF from the air base, is found raped and murdered, Pip and Bryant"s paths cross.

Pip unearths a link between the Squadron Leader, the controversial heiress Catherine De Beers and the dead woman. What Pip thinks is a singular crime of pa.s.sion soon escalates into a crisis that could change the course of the war.

Zambezi.

News of the death of a young research a.s.sistant, reportedly killed by a man-eating lion in Zimbabwe, reaches those closest to her. Jed Banks, a Special Forces soldier serving in Afghanistan; Professor Christine Wallis, a wildlife researcher in South Africa; and Ha.s.san bin Zayid, a hotel magnate in Zambia. The victim was respectively their daughter, protegee and lover.

Driven to find out exactly what happened, Jed, accompanied by Christine, travels to the banks of the Zambezi to investigate. Not only does Jed learn some shocking truths about the daughter he thought he knew, but he begins to suspect that Christine is withholding crucial information.

Meanwhile, Ha.s.san"s grief is dangerously volatile.

The magnificence and terror of Africa is the backdrop to this superb successor to the best-selling Far Horizon.

Far Horizon.

Mike Williams is leading a supposedly carefree life as an overland tour guide in Africa. But just a year ago, the former Australia Army officer had endured the brutal death of his girlfriend at the hands of ivory hunters in Mozambique.

Now the South African Police are on the murderers" trail and need Mike"s help. But he has a truckload of tourists who have no idea what has been asked of him . . . although one pa.s.senger has her suspicions.

Following a chase through some of Africa"s most spectacular locations, Mike gets his shot at revenge . . . but at what cost?.

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