Red Earth

By: Tony Park

Narrated by: Mark Davis

An assassination. A stolen baby. A race to the death.

Durban, South Africa, a car is hijacked. Suzanne Fessey fights back and kills one thief but the other, wounded, escapes with her baby on board.

In pursuit of the missing vehicle and baby are helicopter tracker pilot Nia Carras from the air, and Mike Dunn, a nearby wildlife researcher, from the ground. But South Africa's police have bigger problems: a bomb has gone off in Durban, killing the visiting American Ambassador, and chaos has descended on Kwa-Zulu Natal.

As the missing baby is tracked through the wild game reserves from Zululand to Zimbabwe, Mike and Nia come to realise that the war on terror has invaded their part of the world.

©2016 Tony Park (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing

Critic reviews

"One of [Australia's] best and most consistent thriller writers." ( The Daily Telegraph)

An interminable chase!

I did stick it out to the end but it was tough going.
I found the plot rather poor and the unlikely escapes from a variety of predicaments too far fetched for the story to be credible.
Some of the conversations used language which didn't seem to suit the characters and the whole thing seemed to drag on!
I wouldn't recommend the Author and won't be listening to any other titles of his.