Ex-soldier turned mercenary Sonja Kurtz is on the run in Africa after taking part in a failed assassination attempt on the life of the president of Zimbabwe. It turns out that the assassination-mission was a setup. Sonja is livid. Elsewhere, groups of revolutionaries are plotting to destroy the dam being erected on the Okavango Delta and simultaneously bring about a regime change. American TV heartthrob and wildlife documentary presenter 'Coyote' Sam Chapman is desperate to cover this story. When his path crosses with Sonja, an attraction develops between them. But Sonja's got her mind on other things, blowing up the dam for one...
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Australian writer Tony Park was born in 1964. He fell in love with South Africa on a short trip in 1995 and he and his wife now divide their time between their home in Sydney and a tent in the Kruger Park. He is a qualified military parachutist and a major in the Australian Army Reserve. He has worked in journalism and PR, including 6 months in Afghanistan in 2002 as PR officer for the Australian ground forces there.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Thoroughly enjoyed this book..the only wrong with it was that it ended and I had to return to the land of the living.
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The Delta is the 7th fiction novel by Tony Park. Once again set in Africa, the main character this time is a female mercenary, Sonja Kurtz. After an attempt to assassinate the President of Zimbabwe goes wrong, Sonja escapes to Botswana. There she intends to look up her first love, Stirling Smith, at the safari lodge he still manages. Against her better judgement, her boss, Martin Steele, involves her in a plot to help the Caprivi Liberation Army and to blow up the newly-constructed Okavango Dam which appears to be destroying the Okavango Delta. Throw into the mix American actor "Coyote" Sam Chapman and his World Wildlife film crew, and you have a great story.
I was interested to read and review this book for several reasons. I have read other books by Park, but the main characters have always been men, so I was interested to see how he dealt with a woman in that spot (very well!). I was also interested because it was set in Botswana. I am a very big fan of a particular series by a male author, also set in Botswana, where the main character is also a woman. Alexander McCall-Smith manages to portray Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi so well in his No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series that readers could be forgiven for thinking the author was female. This book, however, is a world away from that series!
Park's dialogue is authentic, the descriptions are highly evocative, the plot has plenty of twists and turns, and the characters are quite believable, although many are not what they first seem. There are some delightful turns of phrase. Park even manages to have the reader sympathetic with a hired assassin! There is lots of action, quite a bit of violence and an exciting finish with a laugh-out-loud last line. Park's first-hand knowledge of Africa is evident in every line of text and his love of the African landscape and many of her people is very obvious. Unlike James Patterson's superficial offering, "Cross Country", Tony Park's books make you want to go to Africa to experience it for yourself. I am looking forward to his next work, African Dawn.
I was interested to read and review this book for several reasons. I have read other books by Park, but the main characters have always been men, so I was interested to see how he dealt with a woman in that spot (very well!). I was also interested because it was set in Botswana. I am a very big fan of a particular series by a male author, also set in Botswana, where the main character is also a woman. Alexander McCall-Smith manages to portray Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi so well in his No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series that readers could be forgiven for thinking the author was female. This book, however, is a world away from that series!
Park's dialogue is authentic, the descriptions are highly evocative, the plot has plenty of twists and turns, and the characters are quite believable, although many are not what they first seem. There are some delightful turns of phrase. Park even manages to have the reader sympathetic with a hired assassin! There is lots of action, quite a bit of violence and an exciting finish with a laugh-out-loud last line. Park's first-hand knowledge of Africa is evident in every line of text and his love of the African landscape and many of her people is very obvious. Unlike James Patterson's superficial offering, "Cross Country", Tony Park's books make you want to go to Africa to experience it for yourself. I am looking forward to his next work, African Dawn.
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For those of you who have read Tony Park before, this book is another great story. As other reviews have said, it's obvious that he loves Africa and has a great knowledge of it's people and environment, and that shines through.
He also knows how to write an exciting story, with characters you connect with and a splash of edgy romance. Saying that, there is always a scene or two where you think 'this would never happen' or 'there is no way they'd survive this situation', but he's such a great story teller that you are willing to overlook it.
A great summer read.
He also knows how to write an exciting story, with characters you connect with and a splash of edgy romance. Saying that, there is always a scene or two where you think 'this would never happen' or 'there is no way they'd survive this situation', but he's such a great story teller that you are willing to overlook it.
A great summer read.
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