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Ghosts of the past / Tony Park.

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Record Number 808173
ISBN 9781760782115 (paperback)
Author Park, Tony, 1964- author.
Title Ghosts of the past / Tony Park.
Publisher/Date Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan / Pan Macmillan Australia, 2019.
©2019
Pagination etc. 462 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary Note Africa, 1906: A young Australian adventurer is condemned to death. Sydney, the present: journalist Nick Eatwell has just lost his job, but his day is brightened when a fellow reporter, South African Susan Vidler, comes into his life looking for his help with a story. Susan is chasing information about Nick's great-great uncle, Cyril Blake, who fought in the Anglo-Boer War and later joined the struggle for independence across the border in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia. A long-lost manuscript proves Nick's forebear was a somewhat reluctant hero. Soldier, deserter, cattle rustler and freedom fighter, Blake was helping the lost cause before the Kaiser's forces ordered his assassination. In Germany, historian Anja Berghoff is researching the origins of the famed desert horses of Namibia. She's also interested in Blake and an Irish-German firebrand and spy, Claire Martin, with whom Cyril had an affair. Nick and Anja head to Africa on the trail of a legend, but someone else is delving into the past, looking for clues to the secret location of a missing horde of gold that's worth killing for.
Subject Journalists -- Fiction
Treasure troves -- Fiction
Women spies -- Africa -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Journalists -- Australia -- Fiction
Women historians -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Australians -- Africa -- Fiction
South African War, 1899-1902 -- History -- Fiction
Africa -- Fiction
Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915 -- Fiction
Africa -- History -- 1884-1918 -- Fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
Shelf Location F PARK
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