Greg Alexander sets up the ultimate adventure vacation company … and accidentally treks into the bloody revolution to overthrow the Shah of Iran.

Not only does Greg face treachery on either side of the bitter struggle for power and survival, he soon finds that he can’t even trust the seemingly innocent western travellers in his own party.

His life and those of his passengers swing in a precarious balance as Greg tries to make sense of the murky and muddled politics, alliances and feuds of the Middle East and navigate the twisting road to safety.

Based on a real life journey and a bloody revolution that changed the face of Islam, sending out shockwaves that still affect the world three decades later.

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Beginning with the wreck of a Portuguese ship off the feared Wild Coast in 1814, this captivating novel spans southern Africa's tumultuous past, ranging from unexplored South East Africa in 1814, to war-torn Angola in 1970. The reader is swept along through tribal conflicts, including the rise of Shaka, the charismatic founder of the Zulu nation, political events and racial tensions in a world in the process of discovery.

Richly peopled by resourceful men and women; Petros Ammamanian, his son Theo, Shaka and his powerful mother Nandi, and the diamond dealer Barney Barnato; it is a story of a remarkable mixed race family.

Seen through the eyes of a young Englishman committed to tracking down the lost journals of Petros, a survivor of the shipwreck, and of his son Theo, this exciting story follows their adventures, the discovery of diamonds, and the founding of a unique island state on an isolated river in South West Africa.

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In 1930s Southern Rhodesia gold is found on a farm, but the all powerful British South Africa Company holds the mineral rights and its intervention could mean ruin for the discoverers. The farmer and his partner, Daniel Walker, decide to conceal the find and smuggle the gold to South Africa. The initial effort is successful, but the district’s senior police officer is determined to prevent the smuggling to the extent that it becomes an all-consuming obsession.

Can they thwart the policeman or will their conflict end up in death and disaster for all?

The story has all the elements of a first class thriller with suspense maintained at a nerve stretching level right to the last page.

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