Graham Spence
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Chris Stone has one passion in an otherwise staid existence; fishing in wild places. Stuck in a soulless job and a failed marriage, he decides to do something truly radical with his arid life: give it all up and put a 'gone fishing' sign on the door.But he wants to fish with a difference. He wants to catch fish that have seldom, if ever, seen humans before. To do so, he has to fish in the most dangerous places in the world.What follows is a roller-coaster...
2) Bloodhorn
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"If you truly want to grasp the situation facing conservationists, do what a poacher does and look at a rhino and see a three-foot-long scimitar of pure gold on its nose. Yet you don't have to tunnel into the earth for it. One bullet is all you need."Alaskan fishing guide Chris Stone's future sister-in-law Josie Gordon, a game ranger, has been kidnapped in South Africa by a murderous gang of rhino poachers. She was investigating the illicit horn trade,...
3) Blood Tide
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Returning from a traumatic tour of duty in Syria, Delta Force warriors Kelly Murdoch and Carl Wilson get the assignment of their lives - infiltrating a surfing cult of Mexican drug runners.But these are not the usual narcos; hardscrabble criminals such as Pablo Escobar and El Chapo who fought and murdered their way to the top. This is the new generation known as el Hijos - the sons. Instead of emerging from ghetto barrios or peon hill farms, they...
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A Liberian businessman is given six hours to pay for a mysterious cargo of weapons in Monrovia - or his son will die.Al-Shabaab terrorists raid an idyllic Kenyan beach resort, kidnapping a British diplomat's daughter.An American special forces soldier uncovers plans to cause global mayhem and bloodshed building radioactive 'dirty' bombs in uranium-rich West Africa.Alaskan adventurer Chris Stone is dragged into this murderous imbroglio with his partner...
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When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq, he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals. Working with members of the zoo staff and a few compassionate U.S. soldiers, Anthony defended the zoo, bartered for food on war-torn streets, and scoured bombed...
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When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of "rogue" wild elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve in Zululand, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival: they would be killed if he wouldn't take them. In order to save their lives, Anthony took them in. In the years that followed, he became a part of their family. And as he battled to create a bond with the elephants, he...
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When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts his attempts to save these remarkable animals. The demand for rhino horns in the Far East has turned poaching into a dangerous black market that threatens...