TONY PARK
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About Tony
Tony Park is the Australian author of five thriller novels set in southern Africa. His sixth novel, IVORY is due for release August 1. IVORY deals with two controversial issues facing modern day Africa – the increase in piracy off the continent’s coast, and the planned reintroduction of elephant culling in South Africa.
Tony and his wife, Nicola, spend six months of every year traveling through Africa, where Tony researches and writes his books. His books, FAR HORIZON (2004), ZAMBEZI (2005), AFRICAN SKY (2006), SAFARI (2007) , and SILENT PREDATOR (2008) deal with issues such as conservation, hunting, poaching, crime, and corruption.
Tony was born in 1964 and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Australia and England, a government press secretary, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer.
He is also a major in the Australian Army Reserve and served six months in Afghanistan in 2002 as the public affairs officer for the Australian ground forces.
When they’re not in Africa, camping in the continent’s magnificent national parks and living out of the back of their old Series III Land Rover (which they leave garaged in southern Africa), Tony and Nicola live in Sydney.
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Tony’s novels are all published by Pan Macmillan Australia. His books have also been published in the UK, South Africa, Germany, Italy, CzechRepublic, New Zealand and Holland.
Here’s a précis of what Tony’s latest novel is about:
IVORY
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 cut-throats, is 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 smuggling ship sets the Chinese triads after him and, to add to his woes, corporate lawyer Jane Humphries lands, literally, in his lap. Another woman is 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.
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Meanwhile Jane finds herself torn between the crooked but charming pirate and her coolly calculating millionaire boss, George Penfold. Both are passionate, and both are dangerous.
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 dilemma
Praise for Tony Park
‘Compulsive’ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
‘Enthralling’ WHO WEEKLY
‘Entertaining’ WEST AUSTRALIAN
Vivid’ GOOD READING
Contact:Tony Park 0414 352 199