Tony Park is the author of 19 novels set in Africa and six non fiction biographies. Tony has worked as a reporter, a press secretary, a PR consultant and a freelance writer. He also served 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve including six month 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.
Tony is a keen supporter of several charities concerned with wildlife and people in Africa.
“Since Wilbur Smith in his heyday, no one has written as well about southern Africa than Tony Park.”
Crime Review (UK)
After a failed assassination attempt on the president of Zimbabwe mercenary Sonja Kurtz returns to her only place of refuge, the Okavango Delta. Part 1 of the Sonja trilogy...
Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary - is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help. Part 2 of the Sonja trilogy...
Follow tales of adventure, murder and mystery as South African detective Sannie van Rensburg tracks villains from the coastal waters of Mozambique to Malawi and Kenya’s Masai Mara. Say howdy in The Hunter to hunky safari guide and private investigator Hudson Brand.
British business tycoon Julianne Clyde-Smith forms an elite anti-poaching squad to save Africa’s wildlife. Who better to head it up than former mercenary Sonja Kurtz in this, the third instalment in the Sonja trilogy
Lawyer Mike Ioannou is dead after a hit and run in Thailand. A home invasion threatens the life of medico Richard Dunlop. In Johannesburg, a car jacker nearly kills photo journalist Liesl Nel. Unrelated incidents in a dangerous world, or a link to their shared past during Rwanda’s genocide?
From a Second World War love affair and murder mystery to the turbulent times of modern Zimbabwe, follow the stories of three African families played out against the stunning backdrop of a tragically beautiful country.
Deep underground in the Eureka mine, South Africa’s zama zamas illegally hunt for gold. King of this brutal underworld is Wellington Shumba – a man who rules his pirate miners through fear of torture and death.
A bloody and tragic run-in with ivory hunters in Mozambique the year before had left Mike’s world in shreds. But now the authorities are on the poachers’ trail and they need his help to catch them.
From the Democratic Republic of Congo where a dangerously charged game of cat and mouse plays out in Africa’s wildlife wars to Alex who needs one last, big heist – enough to fulfil his dreams.
As well as writing novels set in Africa, Tony has branched out into writing non fiction. He’s co-written autobiographies: Part of the Pride, with South African ‘Lion Whisperer’ Kevin Richardson; War Dogs, with Aussie explosive sniffer dog handler, Shane Bryant; The Grey Man with John Curtis; The Lost Battlefield of Kokoda and Walking Wounded, with Brian Freeman; Bush Vet, with Dr Clay Wilson, and Courage Under Fire, with Daniel Keighran VC.
If you know someone interesting or famous who’d like their life story written (for a price), feel free to contact Tony
tonyparknews@gmail.com
