Author Lunch at Kelvin Grove - 3 December

    Meet Tony Park - Author

Launching An Empty Coast

Sonja Kurtz - a former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary

 - is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission

 when her daughter sends a call for help

Thursday 3 December 12 Noon for 12h30

Palmyra Room – Kelvin Grove

Guest speaker, International Author, Tony Park is on a brief visit to launch his latest novel, An Empty Coast which is set in Namibia. He says, “this beautiful country not only has bounteous wildlife, but also a rich mix of vibrant cultures and a fascinating history. It’s also shaping up as a beacon for the rest of the continent.”

He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a government press secretary, a PR consultant and a freelance writer and is also a Major in the Australian Army Reserve; he served in Afghanistan in 2002. Tony and his wife divide their time between Sydney and southern Africa where they own a home on the border of the Kruger National Park. He has written 12 Adventure books and also a number of autobiographies.

When asked where he gets his inspiration from he says “From all sorts of sources: conversations I’ve had with interesting people I’ve met in Africa, and also from unusual stories I’ve seen reported in the African media.”

‘One of our best and most consistent thriller writers’

The Canberra Times

An Empty Coast tells the story of Emma, a student archeologist, on a dig at the edge of Namibia’s Etosha National Park.  She has discovered a body dating back to the country’s liberation war of the 1980s.  The remains of the airman, identified as Hudson Brand, are a key piece of a puzzle that will reveal the location of a modern day buried treasure - a find people will kill for. Sonja returns to the country of her birth to find Emma, who since her call has gone missing.  Former CIA agent Hudson Brand is very much alive and is also drawn back to Namibia to finally solve a decades-old mystery whose clues are entombed in an empty corner of the desert.

A good lunch and an open bar in the delightful Palmyra Room will cost R240 per person.

We will have lots of lucky draws as this will be our last luncheon until January.

Please telephone Sandy on 021 685 8016 to book or email sandybailey@telkomsa.net  for more information.