Ivory
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Publisher Description
Modern day pirates on a quest to save an African treaure
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 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?
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. 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.
