International Best Seller – Tony Park
PLEASE NOTE: Tony is a Sydney resident, and unfortunately due to the COVID restrictions around Sydney his QLD Author Tour has been cancelled.
Tony Park is the author of 18 novels set in Africa and six non fiction biographies.
In the course of a wonderfully diverse career, Tony has worked as a reporter, a press secretary, a PR consultant and a freelance writer. He also served 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve including six month in Afghanistan in 2002. Such a variety of roles has shaped Tony’s writing and provided him with the ideal background for his current work as one of Australia’s leading authors.
Tony and his wife Nicola first visited Africa in 1995, a trip which would change their lives forever. They fell in love with the beauty of Africa, the stunning landscapes, vibrant wildlife and unforgettable people. They now divide their time between Sydney and southern Africa where they own a home on the border of the Kruger National Park.
Tony is an impeccable researcher, and writes character-driven thrilling page-turners set in exotic locations and exploring fascinating political, social and natural histories. In the best tradition of storytellers such as David Baldacci and Ken Follett comes Australia’s own master, Tony Park.
“Since Wilbur Smith in his heyday, no one has written as well about southern Africa than Tony Park.”
– Crime Review (UK)
Tony’s 19th novel, Blood Trail, is set to be released worldwide on August 1.
Tony Parks Top 5 books, as rated by Good Reads
#1 Last Survivor
Greed. Joanne Flack is on the run – suspected of stealing a rare African plant thought to be extinct and worth millions of dollars.
Danger. Sonja Kurtz is hired by the CIA to hunt down Joanne and find the link between the missing plant and a terrorist group hiding out in South Africa.
Treachery. Joanne is a member of the Pretoria Cycad and Firearms Appreciation Society who take it upon themselves to track down the plant and the traitor in their midst who is willing to kill for it.
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#2 Ghosts of the Past
Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death. Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for his help with a story. Susan is chasing information about Nick’s great uncle, Cyril Blake, who fought in the Anglo-Boer War and later joined the struggle for independence across the border in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia. A long-lost manuscript proves Nick’s forebear was a somewhat reluctant hero. Soldier, deserter, cattle rustler and freedom fighter, Blake was helping the lost cause before the Kaiser’s forces ordered his assassination. In Germany, historian Anja Berghoff is researching the origins of the famed desert horses of Namibia. She’s also interested in Blake and an Irish-German firebrand and spy, Claire Martin, with whom Cyril had an affair. Nick and Anja head to Africa on the trail of a legend, but someone else is delving into the past, looking for clues to the secret location of a missing horde of gold that’s worth killing for.
Spanning two centuries, Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.
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#3 African Dawn
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.
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#4 Silent Predator
In a luxury private safari lodge in Kruger National Park, Detective Sergeant Tom Furey has just woken to a protection officer’s worst nightmare. The VIP in his charge, British government minister, Robert Greeves, has been abducted. Knowing his career is on the line, Furey vows not to stop searching 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 kidnappers through the outer limits of the nationalpark, to the coastal waters of Mozambique. Increasingly drawn to Tom, Sannie can’t resist involving herself in his dangerous mission, even risking her job to help him.
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#5 Scent of Fear
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 bomb maker 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 in the midst of an intense affair. And there’s another enemy at play. As bombs target Sean’s unit, can he get himself back on track and win the fight for Africa’s wildlife, and Christine, before it’s too late?
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