As a Roaring Lion: a UK & Africa thriller - Paperback

by Jack Welles (Author)

It starts with an attempted rape ... and a fighting defence that leaves the high-profile attacker bloodied and publicly humiliated. Follow the series of events this sets in motion as they swing from an Argentinean hotel to an English boardroom via the English countryside and the African bush. Along the way two characters lives become romantically intertwined... Dr Mary-Ann-Webster, an American veterinarian and conservation scientist, with a mighty plan that spans seven countries and half the African continent but with a powerful and vindictive enemy who, in his desire for revenge, will stop at nothing to thwart her plans and bring her to her knees. Roger Denton, an unemployed ex-sportsman with a rich wife, who has issues he can barely handle until he meets Mary-Ann while knowing nothing of her problem ... and then things get worse ... for both of them. And the others ... Patrick Denton, an ambitious London banker, who desperately desires what isn't his. Michelle Denton, neurotic to the point of destroying that which she wants most. Animal Rights Activists, zealots who willingly sacrifice animals to achieve their goals. General Joshua Manyoba, a decent man caught up in an indecent civil war. Basil Hawke, who cheerfully supplies arms to Mozambican rebels, in order to profiteer from mining minerals rape while destroying virgin African bush. Raul and Simon de Rivera who control the Darien Cartel in Colombia and want their money back. Captain Paul Hammond, a helicopter pilot with the habit of getting into trouble and chasing other men's wives. Jakes Webber, an expatriate American conservationist, discarded for reasons he doesn't understand, sets up a living monument to himself in the African bush, no matter the cost. And the innocent ... The lion, badly injured in a fight, turns man-eater to survive. The valley, an untouched African ecosystem, until one man decides to use it as a venue for his living monument and another to unlock its mineral wealth. And an Africa with its desperate need for conservation planning to take its wildlife safely through the new millennium As a Roaring Lion" is an action-packed thriller of intrigue and romance set at a time of momentous international changes with the collapse of Communism in the USSR and the ending of the Cold War, the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa that led to the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of Mozambique's ruinous civil war with the advent of democracy as the hardline socialist government there threw in the towel.