Ivory

by Tony Park, Mark Davis (Read by)

Overview

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.

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. 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—three tonnes of ivory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781511336161
Publisher:	Bolinda Audio
Publication date:	11/17/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Tony Park was born in 1964 and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. He has worked as a journalist, public relations consultant and a press secretary. He also served 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve, including a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2002. He is the author of 17 other thriller novels, all set in Africa. Tony and his wife, Nicola, divide their time equally between a home in Australia and a house on the edge of the Kruger National Park in South Africa.

Editorial Reviews

09/07/2015
Alex Tremain, the rogue hero of this fun, deftly plotted thriller from Australian author Park (The Delta), turns to piracy in order to finance the renovation and reopening of the crumbling hotel that his parents once operated on an island off Mozambique. While plundering the Peng Cheng, a Chinese freighter, Alex witnesses the Peng Cheng’s captain give a package to the engineer of the Penfold Son, an ocean liner anchored nearby. When Alex learns that the package has contents worth one million pounds and is somewhere on the Penfold Son, he and his crew attack the ocean liner. In the ensuing fray, Jane Elizabeth Humphries, a lawyer employed by and romantically involved with George Robertson Penfold, the ocean liner’s owner, is knocked unconscious and taken captive on Alex’s island. Jane, who suspects George is involved in illegal activities and is attracted to Alex, is drawn into a deadly struggle between the two men to find the package first. Events proceed at a blistering pace to a masterly conclusion. Agent: Isobel Dixon, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency (U.K.). (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

"Alex Tremain, the rogue hero of this fun, deftly plotted thriller from Australian author Park (The Delta), turns to piracy in order to finance the renovation and reopening of the crumbling hotel that his parents once operated on an island off Mozambique ... Events proceed at a blistering pace to a masterly conclusion." - Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

★ 2015-09-03
A fast-moving thriller set in South Africa and the Indian Ocean. Alex Tremain is a good guy. Really. He simply needs plenty of quick cash to restore his five-star hotel off the Mozambican coast. So naturally, he becomes a pirate, planning to go strictly legit after a few good scores. He and his band of alpha males hijack the Oslo Star for its cargo of trucks. Then they come upon the reeking hellhole MV Peng Cheng, filled with large, suffering animals, including rhinos and elephants. "This place isn't just a zoo, it's a bloody goldmine," one of Alex's team exclaims. But that's nothing. The big money would be in stealing a shipment of ivory, and ship owner Chan asks him to do just that. When Alex expresses moral concerns, Chan jokes "My, my, a pirate with a conscience?" In an especially bloody and disgusting scene, coldblooded hunters slaughter elephants for their ivory. Profiting from such butchery may be too much for Alex, who ponders that there are "degrees of wrongness." Eventually he wants "out of the piracy game," though some on his team emphatically disagree. During all of this, the container ship Penfold Son plies the high seas. It's owned by the three-timing George Penfold, who cheats on his wife and a girlfriend. Jane Humphries works as an attorney for Penfold Shipping and currently sleeps in Penfold's bed, but will she accept his marriage proposal, or will she come to her senses and mate with a decent pirate like Alex? The action here is crisp and nearly nonstop. Even when the story looks like it's finally winding down, one last crisis appears. A compelling tale filled with tension, blood, and a disturbing moral question: will humans stop killing Africa's large animals before they become extinct?

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