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A poacher vanishes, two young girls go missing, a tourist disappears... magic or murder?

A wild African paradise is about to erupt.When a young American research assistant is killed by a man-eating lion, three people are devastated - Jed Banks, an American Special Forces soldier serving in Afghanistan; Professor Christine Wallis, a wildlife researcher in South Africa; and Hassan bin Zayid, a hotel magnate in Zambia. The victim, Miranda Banks-Lewis, was their daughter, protégé and lover respectively.Desperate to find out what happened to Miranda, Jed and Christine, with the help of a determined Australian journalist, set out on a perilous journey of discovery in Africa. Forced to pit themselves against the continent's dangers, they will also learn shocking truths about the woman they thought they knew.

Kommissarin Sannie van Rensburg und Safariführerin Mia Greenaway geraten ins Kreuzfeuer einer jahrzehntealten Fehde zwischen fünf Veteranen des südafrikanischen Grenzkriegs zu Zeiten der Apartheid.Von der tödlichen Mission, die ihr Leben für immer geprägt hat, verfolgt, müssen sich die ehemaligen Fallschirmjäger bei der Beerdigung eines Kameraden in den roten Dünen der Kalahari-Wüste endlich ihren Dämonen stellen - und einander.Doch ihre Narben sitzen tief, und als die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt, muss sich jeder von ihnen fragen: Was macht dich, wenn du deinem Land dienst, zu einem Helden und für welche Geheimnisse lohnt es sich zu töten?

Die Jagd nach einem Vermissten durch Afrika führt zum wirklich Bösen In einer luxuriösen privaten Safari-Lodge im Krüger-Nationalpark erlebt Detective Sergeant Tom Furey den schlimmsten Albtraum eines Bodyguards: Robert Greeves, der ihm anvertraute VIP, der stellvertretende britische Verteidigungsminister, ist verschwunden. Furey weiss, dass seine Karriere auf dem Spiel steht, trotzdem schwört er, nicht aufzugeben, bis Greeves gefunden ist - tot oder lebendig. Er und seine südafrikanische Kollegin, Inspektorin Sannie van Rensburg, widersetzen sich den offiziellen Anweisungen. Sie machen sich über die Grenzen des Nationalparks und bis zu den Küstengewässern von Mosambik auf die Jagd nach einer mutmasslichen Terroristenbande. Sannie fühlt sich zunehmend zu Tom hingezogen und lässt sich mehr und mehr in seine gefährliche Mission hineinziehen. Um ihm zu helfen, riskiert sie sogar ihren Job. Tom und Sannie wird bewusst, dass ihre Feinde genauso tödlich und schwierig zu fassen sind, wie die lautlosen Jäger des afrikanischen Buschs. Die Erkenntnis, dass es um ein Verbrechen geht, das die schlimmsten menschlichen Vorstellungen übersteigt, und der Moment, in dem sowohl ihr Leben wie auch das ihrer Liebsten in Gefahr gerät, zwingen sie, einen Kampf auf Leben und Tod auszufechten.

In Südafrika läuft ein Attentäter frei herum und ein Baby ist verschwunden. Ein Geierforscher und eine Hubschrauberpilotin machen sich daran, die Unschuldigen zu finden und die Schuldigen zu stellen. Ob es ihnen gelingt, diese auseinander zu halten?Während des brutalen Diebstahls ihres Autos in der Umgebung von Durban, übt Suzanne Fessey Gegenwehr aus. Dabei tötet sie einen der Diebe, der andere entkommt verwundet in ihrem Fahrzeug und mitsamt ihrem Baby auf dem Rücksitz.Für die Verfolgung des vermissten Fahrzeugs werden die Hubschrauberpilotin Nia Carras für Unterstützung aus der Luft und der lokale Wildtierforscher Mike Dunn für die Verfolgung am Boden beigezogen.Doch gleichzeitig hat die südafrikanische Polizei weitaus grössere Probleme: In Kwa-Zulu Natal herrscht Chaos, weil ein Selbstmordattentäter die amerikanische Botschafterin umgebracht hat.Das vermisste Baby wird durch mehrere Wildtierschutzgebiete von Zululand bis nach Simbabwe verfolgt und Mike und Nia müssen feststellen, dass der Kampf gegen den Terror auch ihren Teil der Welt erfasst hat.

Nach einem gescheiterten Attentat auf den Präsidenten von Simbabwe ist die zur Söldnerin gewordene Ex-Soldatin Sonja Kurtz auf der Flucht und begibt sich an ihren einzigen Zufluchtsort, das Okavango-Delta im Herzen von Botswana. Sie möchte ihre Jugendliebe, den Safari-Camp-Manager Sterling Smith, wiederfinden, einen Neuanfang wagen und ihr gefährliches Leben als Kriegerin hinter sich lassen.Doch Sonja entdeckt, dass ihr geliebtes Delta am Rande der Zerstörung steht. Sie wird als ¿Öko-Kommandö rekrutiert, um ein Projekt zu stoppen, das das empfindliche Netz der Sümpfe und Wasserwege des Deltas für immer zerstören wird.Schon bald findet sich Sonja in einem tödlichen Netz aus Intrigen wieder, in das Sterling, ihr Söldner-Kommandant, der gut aussehende Martin Steele und der TV-Superstar und Moderator einer Naturdokumentation, ¿Koyoten-Sam¿ Chapman verwickelt sind, der in einer schief laufenden Reality-Show aus dem Busch stolpert.Anstatt ihrer gewalttätigen Vergangenheit zu entkommen, ist Sonja nun von Männern umgeben, die sich auf ihren Killerinstinkt verlassen. Wo sie eigentlich Frieden finden wollte, herrscht nun Krieg. Es geht um viel mehr als das Überleben des Deltas ...Ein actiongeladener Abenteuerroman von einem Autor, der Wilbur Smith den Titel des ¿Meisters des afrikanischen Thrillers¿ streitig macht .... Das Tempo ist halsbrecherisch, auf jeder Seite entkommt man knapp dem Tod, und der Charme ist ansteckend. Daily Mail, Großbritannien

Ein nahezu vergessener afrikanischer Krieg. Ein verschwundener Schatz, für den es sich zu töten lohnt. Verstrickte Beziehungen über Völkergrenzen hinaus. Deutsch-Südwestafrika, heutiges Namibia, 1906: Der australische Pferdehändler Cyril Blake wird von den Soldaten des deutschen Kaisers kaltblütig hingerichtet. Sydney in der Gegenwart: Blakes Urgrossneffe, der kürzlich verwitwete Nick Eatwell, wird von der südafrikanischen Journalistin Susan Vidler, die über den mysteriösen Tod seines Vorfahren nachforscht, kontaktiert. Fasziniert von der unbekannten Familiengeschichte und ihrem Bezug zur aktuellen internationalen Politik, sucht und findet Nick ein langverschollenes Manuskript. Darin wird berichtet, wie Blake, nachdem er im Zweiten Burenkrieg kämpfte, in Südafrika blieb und sich dem Volk der Nama bei dessen Aufstand gegen die herrschenden Deutschen in Deutsch-Südwestafrika anschloss. Fast gleichzeitig stösst in München die Historikerin Anja Berghoff, die über den Ursprung der wilden 'Geisterpferde' Namibias forscht, auf interessante Briefe der irisch-deutschen Spionin Claire Martin, die mit Blake eine Affäre hatte. Als sich die Wege von Nick und Anja kreuzen, jagen sie auf den Spuren einer Legende durch das südliche Afrika. Aber sie sind nicht allein - auch jemand anderes jagt die Geister der Vergangenheit und ist versessen nach Hinweisen auf den verborgenen Schatz, für den es sich zu töten lohnt. 'Geister der Vergangenheit' basiert auf historischen Fakten und einer wahren Geschichte.DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG MAYA VON DACH

Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, and each other, at the funeral of a comrade in the red dunes of the Kalahari Desert. But their scars run deep, and as the truth emerges, each man must ask himself: When serving your country, what makes you a hero and what secrets are worth killing for?

Former mercenary Sonja Kurtz is hired to set up an elite anti-poaching unit. From South Africa to to the Serengeti in Tanzania Sonja's fighting a war on many fronts against enemies known and unknown.British business tycoon Julianne Clyde-Smith will do anything to save Africa's endangered wildlife, including setting up an elite anti-poaching squad. Hiring Sonja Kurtz to head up the covert strike force, Julianne gives the former mercenary whatever she needs to take down Africa's poaching kingpins. As the body count rises, it becomes harder for Sonja and her team to stay under the radar.When her former flame, safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand, is hired to investigate the death of an alleged poacher, Sonja is forced to ask herself if Julianne's wildlife crusade has gone too far.As the investigation deepens it becomes increasingly apparent that a shadowy underworld syndicate known as the Scorpions are pulling the strings behind Africa's poaching epidemic. Just as Julianne is intent on wiping out poaching so, too, are the Scorpions concentrating on taking out the women who stand in their way...

A woman's quest to save Africa's wildlife turns lethal.A very eager - and rather naive - Australian lawyer, Kerry Maxwell, flies into South Africa to volunteer at a wildlife orphanage run by notorious vet, Graham Baird.Graham is as jaded and reckless as Kerry is law-abiding and optimistic. When Kerry arrives at the animal sanctuary it's to the news that Graham is imprisoned in Mozambique following a shootout with elephant poachers. In the gunfight he killed the brother of corrupt politician and poaching kingpin Fidel Costa.Kerry's earnest sense of justice takes her to Massingir to help Graham with his case, and into a world of danger. Kidnapped, chased, attacked and betrayed, Kerry learns the bitter truth about the complexities and deadly nature of the war on poaching.Even the motivations of well-meaning charities, wealthy donors and private zoos are not all they appear.Kerry's perilous entanglement may be what Graham needs to shake off his drunken cynicism and rejoin the fight for Africa's animals, but is it enough, and in time, to stop Costa's quest for revenge...

A body from an old war and a missing girl bring retired mercenary Sonja Kurtz home to Africa's deadly Skeleton Coast.Sonja Kurtz - former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary - is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help.Emma, a student archaeologist, on a dig at the edge of Namibia's Etosha National Park has discovered a body dating back to the country's liberation war of the 1980s.The remains of the airman, identified as Hudson Brand, are a key piece of a puzzle that will reveal the location of a modern day buried treasure - a find people will kill for. Sonja returns to the country of her birth to find Emma, who since her call has gone missing.Former CIA agent Hudson Brand is very much alive and is also drawn back to Namibia to finally solve a decades-old mystery whose clues are entombed in an empty corner of the desert.

A missing woman, a serial killer at large. Man is the most dangerous quarry of all.Safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand hunts people, not animals. He's on the trail of Linley Brown who's been named as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy.Linley's friend, Kate, supposedly died in a fiery car accident in Zimbabwe, but Kate's sister wants to believe it is an elaborate fraud.South African detective Sannie van Rensburg is also looking for Linley, as well as a serial killer who has been murdering prostitutes on Sannie's watch. Top of her list of suspects is Hudson Brand.Sannie and Hudson cross paths and swords as they track the elusive Linley from South Africa and Zimbabwe to the wilds of Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve.

From the ashes of an African genocide lost love and a new evil arise.Lawyer Mike Ioannou is dead after a hit and run in Thailand. A home invasion threatens the life of medico Richard Dunlop. In Johannesburg, a car jacker nearly kills photo journalist Liesl Nel. Unrelated incidents in a dangerous world, or something else entirely?Australian war crimes prosecutor Carmel Shang joins the dots. All three victims are linked by a photograph that was clutched in the hand of a dying man nearly twenty years ago. The picture holds a clue to how madness gripped a country resulting in a million people losing their lives.Carmel has to not only confront the perpetrators of the unprecedented slaughter, but Richard and Liesl, the two people she never wanted to see again. Richard was the UN military doctor she was in love with in Rwanda, and Liesl was the woman who came between them. Now they are thrown together again, desperately trying to find out why the photograph is making them the target of an assassin.In a quest that takes them from South Africa's Kruger National Park to Zambia, Australia, and back to Rwanda, where it all began, they find that amidst the indestructible majesty and beauty of Africa, yesterday's merchants of death are dealing in a new currency - illegal traditional medicine and the barbaric live trade in endangered African wildlife; businesses they're prepared to kill for to protect.

An overland tour through Africa becomes a quest for revenge.Mike Williams is leading a supposedly carefree life as an overland tour guide in Africa, but he's carrying a burden of grief from his time as a United Nations landmine clearer in Mozambique.The South African police are hunting murderous poachers and they call on Mike to help them investigate a new lead in an old crime whose circumstances Mike knows all too well.British travel journalist Sarah Thatcher is along for the ride, with a bunch of fun-seeking backpackers, but Sarah is hungry for a hard news story and she'll do anything to uncover Mike's secret past.Their safari holiday is about to turn deadly.

Man's best friend is a poacher's worst nightmare, but tracker dogs and their handlers protecting wildlife in Africa face an explosive new threat. Can a man and his dog find redemption and the real criminal?Afghanistan veteran Sean Bourke's world explodes when an IED detonates in South Africa's Sabi Sand Game Reserve.On a routine anti-poaching patrol, Sean and his tracker dog Benny watch in horror as over-eager rookie Tumi Mabasa is almost killed and her dog gravely injured in the explosion.Along with Tumi and best mate Craig Hoddy, Sean is determined to hunt down the elusive bombmaker who has introduced this destructive weapon to the war on poaching.But Sean is his own worst enemy. Haunted by nightmares of the war and racked with guilt from driving away his ex-wife, Christine, he soon discovers she and Craig are in the midst of an intense affair.And there's another enemy at play...

An assassin is on the loose and a baby has gone missing in South Africa - it's up to a vulture researcher and a helicopter pilot track down the innocent and stop the guilty. How will they know the difference?On the outskirts of Durban, Suzanne Fessey fights back during a vicious carjacking. She kills one thief but the other, wounded, escapes with her baby strapped into the back seat.Called in to pursue the missing vehicle are helicopter tracker pilot Nia Carras from the air, and Mike Dunn, a nearby wildlife researcher, from the ground.But South Africa's police have even bigger problems: a suicide bomber has killed the visiting American Ambassador, and chaos has descended on Kwa-Zulu Natal.As the missing baby is tracked through wild game reserves from Zululand to Zimbabwe, Mike and Nia come to realise that the war on terror has well and truly invaded their part of the world.

In Africa, men - and women - will risk all for the lure of gold.

Zimbabwe - a country in peril, a family torn apart, a battle to save a species.In the broken country that is Zimbabwe, only the strongest can survive.Three families - the Bryants, the Quilter-Phipps and the Ngwenyas - share a history as complex and bloody as the country itself.Dedicated conservationists Paul and Philippa Bryant face an enormous struggle: to save their farm and small herd of endangered black rhinos from corrupt government minister Emmerson Ngwenya. Twin brothers, ex-soldier Braedan and environmentalist Tate Quilter-Phipps join the fight.But the brothers' own history is fraught, and when they fall in love with the same woman, Natalie Bryant, their rivalry threatens to not only derail the attempt to save the rhinos, but also puts the lives of all involved at risk.With blood feuds still to settle, every one of these players will be drawn into the fray, and not one will remain unscathed.African Dawn is the second chapter in Tony Park's acclaimed Story of Zimbabwe series.

A missing man sparks a chase through Africa to track down true evil.In a luxury private safari lodge in Kruger National Park, Detective Sergeant Tom Furey has just woken to a bodyguard's worst nightmare. The VIP in his charge, British Assistant Minister for Defence, Robert Greeves, has vanished.Knowing his career is on the line, Furey vows not to stop until Greeves is found - dead or alive. He and his South African counterpart, Inspector Sannie van Rensburg, go against official orders and start the hunt for the suspected band of terrorists through the outer limits of the National Park to the coastal waters of Mozambique. Increasingly drawn to Tom, Sannie can't resist becoming more and more involved in his dangerous mission, even risking her job to help him.By the time Tom and Sannie discover that their foes are as elusive and deadly as the stealthy predators of the African bush, it is their lives, and those of their loved ones, that are at risk. This is a fight to the death, and involves a crime beyond anyone's worst imaginings.

A deadly game of hunters and the hunted in the wilds of Africa.

An epic wartime adventure in the heart of Africa.Rhodesia, 1943: Paul Bryant hasn't been able to get back in an aircraft since a fatal bombing mission over Germany. Instead, the Squadron Leader is flying a desk at a pilot training school in Africa when one of his trainees is reported missing.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.Suspicion immediately falls on the local black community, but Pip's investigations unearth a link between the Squadron Leader, the controversial heiress Catherine De Beers and the dead woman, which throws the case in a new, disturbing direction.What Pip thinks is a singular crime of passion soon escalates into a crisis that could change the course of the war.African Sky is the first instalment in Tony Park's acclaimed Story of Zimbabwe series.

Modern day pirates on a quest to save an African treaure.

Only a bunch of heavily armed gardeners can save the world's most valuable plant.

In "Part of the Pride", Kevin Richardson, recently dubbed "The Lion Man" on 60 Minutes, tells the story of how he grew from a young boy who loved animals to become a man able to cross the divide between humans and predators, looking some of the world's most dangerous animals directly in the eye, playing with them and even kissing them on the nose-all without ever being attacked or injured. As a self-taught animal behaviorist, Richardson has broken every safety rule known to humans when working with these wild animals. Flouting common misconceptions that breaking an animal's spirit with sticks and chains is the best way to subdue them, he uses love, understanding and trust to develop personal bonds with them. His unique method of getting to know their individual personalities, what makes each of them angry, happy, upset, or irritated has caused them to accept him like one of their own into their fold. Richardson allows the animals' own stories to share center stage as he tells readers about Napoleon and Tau, the two he calls his "brothers"; the amazing Meg, a lioness Richardson taught to swim; the fierce Tsavo who savagely attacked him; and the heartbreaking little hyena called Homer who didn't live to see his first birthday. In "Part of the Pride", Richardson, with novelist Tony Park, delves into the mind of the big cats and their world to show readers a different way of understanding the dangerous big cats of Africa.