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Ghosts of the past
Tag	Description
020	$a9781760782115
082	$aAF PAR
100	$aPark, Tony,$d1964-,$eauthor.
245	$aGhosts of the past$cTony Park.
260	$a[S.l.] :$bPAN MACMILLAN AUSTRALIA,$c2019
300	$a462 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm.
340	$aPaperback
500	$aPrepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
505	$aFiction.
520	$aAfrica, 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.
521	$aAdult.
650	$aAction and adventure fiction.
650	$aHistorical fiction.
650	$aCold cases (Criminal investigation)
650	$aJournalists.
650	$aMurder$xInvestigation.