TY  - BOOK
AU  - Park,Tony
TI  - Ghosts of the past
SN  - 9781760782115
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Sydney, New South Wales
PB  - Macmillan / Pan Macmillan Australia
KW  - Suspense fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
KW  - fast
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Treasure troves
KW  - Widowers
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Women historians
KW  - Women spies
KW  - Africa
KW  - Australians
KW  - South African War, 1899-1902
KW  - History
KW  - 20th centuryFiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Namibia
KW  - 1884-1915
KW  - 1884-1918
KW  - Australian
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcsh
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Frame stories
N1  - Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information); Fiction; Adult
N2  - 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
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