TY - BOOK AU - Park,Tony TI - The cull T2 - Sonja Kurtz SN - 9781743548455 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Sydney, NSW PB - Pan Macmillan KW - Kurtz, Sonja, KW - Suspense fiction KW - fast KW - Poaching KW - Africa KW - Fiction KW - Novel KW - English KW - Australia KW - 21st century KW - Texts KW - Organized crime KW - South Africa KW - Undercover operations - Fiction KW - Poachers - Africa - Fiction KW - Businessmen - Fiction KW - Murder - Investigation - Fiction KW - Private investigators - Fiction KW - Businessmen KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Private investigators KW - Undercover operations KW - Poachers KW - Kruger National Park (South Africa) KW - Australian KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - British business tycoon Julia Clyde-Smith will do anything to save Africa’s endangered wildlife, including setting up an elite anti-poaching squad. Hiring Sonja Kurtz to head up the covert strike force, Julia gives the former mercenary whatever she needs to take down Africa’s poaching kingpins. As the body count rises, it becomes harder for Sonja and her team to stay under the radar. When her former flame, safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand, is hired to investigate the death of an alleged poacher, Sonja is forced to ask herself if Julia’s wildlife crusade has gone too far. As the investigation deepens it becomes increasingly apparent that a shadowy underworld syndicate known as the Scorpions are pulling the strings behind Africa’s poaching epidemic. Just as Julia is intent on wiping out poaching so, too, are the Scorpions concentrating on taking out the women who stand in their way . . ER -