Book Description

Hunters and Smugglers, Plotters and Terrorists. Africa, Middle East and Europe... a triangle of terror. An international bounty hunter recruits a group of British men and women for a safari in Tanzania, East Africa, where they unwittingly become deadly pawns to fund Islamic Jihad. When another group of Islamist radicals joins them, die safari turns into a killing spree for elephants for their ivory. At the behest of an influential local Indian, the ivory is smuggled out ending in the hands of a terrorist network out to attack Britain and to bring its Government down to its knees. For payment of their blood mone\ of the elephant killings, the two British hunters and an innocent Indian are lured to Dubai and on to Jordan and finally duped to travel to Iraq to be imprisoned. Who is the mastermind behind this elaborate plot to kidnap these Britons? Will Britain agree to the demands of the terrorists making international headlines? Will they survive to tell this tale of terror? This international thriller reveals the ugly face of the masked terrorists. A tale of deceit, destruction and death, it has wide ranging pointers to new directions of terror that unfold regularly on the global scene. As an acclaimed author of a bestseller, 'Dubai on Wheels', Shamlal Puri, brings his extensive knowledge of the African bush, the Middle East and Britain, to craft this story of 21st Century terrorism across many boundaries. Pun's description of peoples and places projects a thrilling movie on the screen of the reader's mind. The non-stop action never stumbles. "Shamlal Puri's novel has out-scooped journalists and the intelligence community by unearthing how poaching in Africa is being used to rake in money for Jihad." —Evan Mwangi, who teaches African Literature at Northwestern University, USA. An international journalist, editor and author, Shamlal Puri, has worked full time with the Media in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East in a career spanning over 30years. He lived in the Middle East for three years during which he gathered first hand impressions for this novel. Shamlal is well traveled and now lives and works in the United Kingdom where he devotes more time to writing fiction. He has authored several hooks: including That's Life: Michael Matatu at Large and Dubai on Wheels.