- Title:
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Ghosts of the Past
- Written by:
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Tony Park
- Read by:
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Simone Gescheit
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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16 hours 8 minutes
- Published:
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July 23 2019
- Available Date:
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July 23 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655614098
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Historical Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan Australia
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In bestseller Tony Park's latest adventure-thriller Nick Eatwell finds himself in southern Africa investigating the century-old execution of Australian soldier Cyril Blake.
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.
Spanning two centuries, Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.
'Gripping action thrillers ... never disappoints as a storyteller.'
The Daily Telegraph