Tony Park

A poacher vanishes, two young girls go missing, a tourist disappears... magic or murder?Evil is at play in a South African game reserve.A poacher vanishes into thin air, defying logic and baffling ace tracker Mia Greenaway.Meanwhile Captain Sannie van Rensburg, still reeling from a personal tragedy, is investigating the disappearance of two young girls who locals fear have been abducted for use in sinister traditional medicine practices.But poachers are also employing witchcraft, paying healers for potions they believe will make them invisible and bulletproof.When a tourist goes missing, Mia and Sannie must work together to confront their own demons and challenge everything they believe, and to follow a bloody trail that seems to vanish at every turn.

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.

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 deadly game of hunters and the hunted in the wilds of Africa.An increasingly volatile Zimbabwe and the jungle-clad mountains of the Democratic Republic of Congo is where a dangerously charged game of cat and mouse plays out in Africa's wildlife wars.Canadian researcher Michelle Parker cannot resist the opportunity to make contact with the famed mountain gorillas, but she is wary of the man giving her this chance - professional big-game hunter, Fletcher Reynolds.Fletcher represents all Michelle has fought against, but she finds herself increasingly drawn to his power and is reassured by his determination to stamp out of poaching.Into this mix steps ex-SAS officer Shane Castle, 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 - but is also a man who makes Michelle start to doubt the choices she has made...

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.

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...

In Africa, men - and women - will risk all for the lure of gold.Deep underground in the Eureka mine, South Africa's zama zamas illegally hunt for gold. King of this brutal underworld is Wellington Shumba, a man who rules his illegal miners through fear of torture and death.Running Eureka's legitimate operation is former recce-commando Cameron McMurtrie. When one of his engineers is taken hostage, Cameron does not hesitate to mastermind a dramatic rescue - and finish it off with a manhunt for Wellington. That is until corporate interference from the mine's Australian head office, in the shape of ambitious high-flyer Kylie Hamilton, gets in his way.Kylie is visiting South Africa supposedly to finalise a new mine on the border of the famed Kruger National Park, but instead she and Cameron are forced into a partnership to fend off an environmental war above ground, and a deadly battle with a ruthless killer below.Cameron and Kylie have become Wellington's prey. They must unite - their lives depend on it.

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.

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.

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.

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

Modern day pirates on a quest to save an African treaure.Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. The two women in his life - one of them his financial adviser, the other his diesel mechanic - have left him. He's facing a mounting tide of debts and his crew of modern-day buccaneers, a multi-national band of ex-military cutthroats, are getting restless.They don't all share his dream of going legit, but what Alex really wants is to re-open the five-star resort hotel which once belonged to his Portuguese mother and English father on the Island of Dreams, off the coast of Mozambique.A chance raid on a wildlife smugglers' ship sets the Chinese triads after him and, to add to his woes, corporate lawyer Jane Humphries lands, literally, in his lap.Another woman's the last thing Captain Tremain needs right now - especially one whose lover is a ruthless shipping magnate backed up by a deadly bunch of contract killers.What Alex really needs is one last, big heist - something valuable enough to fulfil his dreams and set him and his men up for life.When the South African government makes a controversial decision to reinstitute the culling of elephants in its national parks, Alex finds the answer to his prayers, but at what cost?

Mercenary Sonja Kurtz is brought out of retirement to blow up a dam and save an African wildlife paradise.