THE LAST SAVANNA
By Mike Bond
Mandevilla Press; January 15, 2014
$15.99; 253 pages
ISBN: 978-1-62704-008-2
Idgie Says:
As with the previous book of Mike's that the Dew reviewed, Saving Paradise, this novel is a fine combination of realism in life, ecological danger, .and a touch of over the top adventure in the likes of Dirk Pitt! It shares with the reader the real life danger to our environment and wilderness and how we can lose it all completely if we're not careful. But he wraps the truth around an adventure story complete with romance and tough guy daring do to keep the reader engrossed - even while learning a few things about their world they may not have been aware of.
Check it out, I think you'll be pleased.
Idgie Says:
As with the previous book of Mike's that the Dew reviewed, Saving Paradise, this novel is a fine combination of realism in life, ecological danger, .and a touch of over the top adventure in the likes of Dirk Pitt! It shares with the reader the real life danger to our environment and wilderness and how we can lose it all completely if we're not careful. But he wraps the truth around an adventure story complete with romance and tough guy daring do to keep the reader engrossed - even while learning a few things about their world they may not have been aware of.
Check it out, I think you'll be pleased.
Click HERE for excerpt**
Dew Review of Saving Paradise - his last novel - HERE
Click HERE to read about his Saving Paradise Project
**Excerpted from the book THE LAST SAVANNA by Mike Bond. Copyright © 2013 by Mike Bond. Reprinted with permission of Mandevilla Press. All rights reserved
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Dew Review of Saving Paradise - his last novel - HERE
Click HERE to read about his Saving Paradise Project
**Excerpted from the book THE LAST SAVANNA by Mike Bond. Copyright © 2013 by Mike Bond. Reprinted with permission of Mandevilla Press. All rights reserved
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THE LAST SAVANNA
By Mike Bond
At the age of 19 author and former foreign correspondent Mike Bond took
off on foot across the Sahara, experiencing the euphoria and terror of
wandering across the blazing, uncharted desert mountains from
Tamanrasset to Timbuktu. Since then he has traveled
and explored many thousands of miles through Africa’s jungles, deserts
and savannas, and has participated in military operations with Kenyan
rangers against elephant poachers. These experiences have ignited a
life-long fascination and involvement with the
African continent, which comes blazingly to life in his existential
thriller
THE LAST SAVANNA (Mandevilla Press; January 15, 2014).
Former SAS officer Ian MacAdam is wearing his retirement like an
ill-fitting suit. Uncomfortable at home on his Kenyan ranch watching his
wife slip into alcoholism, he accepts an assignment by an old
government friend to hunt the one creature that is truly
worth hunting—man.
Leading a team of commandos against ivory poachers, he is horrified to
learn that these criminals have kidnapped the young archeologist who
still has an unexpected grip on his heart. Soon he is on a desperate
trek to rescue Rebecca—and perhaps, himself.
THE LAST SAVANNA is an unflinching look
at the beauty and violence of Africa, the horror of the slaughter of the
great beasts, the delicate balance of tribal life, the growth of
terrorism and the timeless landscape. Its insights into how elephant
poaching
and drug sales are used to fund Islamic terrorist activities by Al
Qaeda offshoots like Al-Shabaab are shockingly relevant and little
known. And, as Bond points out, “at the heart of the book is the truth
that preserving East African wildlife is the best way
to fight fundamentalism. The animals are not only essential to the
environment; they fuel tourism, which in turn fuels the economy.”
MIKE BOND has been called the “master of the existential
thriller” by the BBC and “one of the 21st century’s most exciting
authors” by the
Washington Times. He is a bestselling novelist, environmental
activist, international energy expert, war and human rights
correspondent and award-winning poet who has lived and worked in many
remote, dangerous parts of the world. His critically acclaimed
novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for what is good,
the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister
vagaries of international politics and multinational corporations, and
the beauty of the vanishing natural world.
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