Best-selling author Tony Park will talk about his new thriller The Pride at two "Authors in the Library" events in Cairns this week.
The author of 20 novels and nine biographies, Mr Park will be at Cairns City Library tomorrow at 6pm, and Smithfield Library on Wednesday at 10.30am.
Mr Park has worked as a reporter, a press secretary, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer, and also served 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve, including six months in Afghanistan in 2002.
The Australian writer and his wife, Nicola, divide their time living in Sydney and southern Africa, where they own a home on the border of the Kruger National Park.
The Pride is a tale of greed, danger and treachery, which focuses on ex-mercenary Sonja Kurtz, who is driven to seek revenge on an abalone diver who has assaulted her daughter, Emma.
But when the poacher is murdered, Sonja is targeted by a violent local gangster and must flee the country, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
