NEW RELEASE

Tusker: An International Crime & African Adventure Thriller

A deathbed confession. A neo-Nazi cult in Southern Africa. And a fight to save the last of the great elephants.

In 1908 teenager Hélène Sondheim witnesses the first genocide of the twentieth century in German South West Africa – an event that foreshadows the Nazi holocaust. As she flees from the land of her birth, she takes with her knowledge of the vanquished Makololo tribe’s priceless rare earth metal deposits and the extraordinary secrets of their ferocious war elephants.

In 2022, fragments of an unknown African metal are uncovered in a discarded WWII archive box. Negotiator Sam Jardine must win the race against his ruthless enemies to discover the source of the priceless metal that will dominate vehicle production for decades to come.

As supercentenarian Hélène Sondheim lies on her deathbed after an action-packed life in Zambia as a geologist and wildlife conservationist, she is poised to take her precious knowledge to the grave. But as Jardine begins to coax the dying woman’s secrets from her, the Weisse Bruderschaft, descendants of the Imperial German forces, are resolved to prevent her from speaking the truth about the 1908 genocide. In the path of the Weisse Bruderschaft is a man determined to avenge one of Africa’s most heinous acts of injustice and the last herd of battle elephants, who have neither forgotten nor forgiven the German forces for the destruction of the once mighty Makololo Kingdom.

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NEW RELEASE SPECIAL!

 

Here’s what you will receive when you order Tusker

1. Free copy of The Sleepwalker Legacy: Book 1 in Sam Jardine Crime Conspiracy Thrillers

2. Behind the Scenes of Tusker

 

Here’s how to get your bonuses

1. Pick a copy of the eBook during the launch week from Amazon.

2. Inside the book, in the Table of Contents, you’ll see a chapter marked “New Release Bonuses.“

3. Click the “New Release Bonuses.” chapter link, and you’ll be taken to a page inserted in the book with the links to download your freebies.

4. That’s it!Super simple. And all the bonuses (Book 1, The Sleepwalker Legacy, and Behind the Scenes of Tusker) will be ready and be waiting for you to download instantly.

 

 

Here’s what advance readers are saying about Tusker

 

Christopher Hepworth’s latest book begins in England, when Sam Jardine faces a hostile board as he tries to garner support to develop a cutting-edge battery that uses a rare earth metal. With his plan in jeopardy, and the Chinese government keen to acquire the rights to mine the metal, Sam uses his unique negotiating skills to secure the mine contract for himself.Sam travels to Zambia and discovers that in addition to the mining rights, he has also acquired a rundown safari lodge. Here he has his first encounter with a tusker, a descendant of the Makololo elephants who leads him to supercentenarian Hélène Sondheim, who is close to death. She tells him the tragic story of the demise of the Makololo tribe at the hands of brutal Imperial German forces, and of her love for the tribe’s leader.
Sam soon discovers that he is facing his own dangers, from ruthless poachers killing wildlife on his land, to descendants of the Imperial German forces bent on driving him out of Zambia, and the Chinese Government’s attempts to sway the Zambian Government to turn over the mining rights to them.
Sam must use all his ingenuity and the help of allies and friends to defeat these threats, find the precious metal’s source, and save the last of the Makololo elephants. As he finds himself falling for the beautiful but headstrong great-great granddaughter of Hélène Sondheim, he also has to face the demons of his past or risk derailing their relationship forever.
Tusker is a fast-paced, artfully written adventure. Hepworth brings the scenery and climate of Zambia to life in a way that only someone who has lived there and experienced it is able. It’s a moving and at times heartbreaking story of the precarious reality for the wildlife and the native people.~ Sally Asnicar

 

What an awesome story that will have you gripped until the end. Witnessing German South Africa genocide in 1908 was a terrible situation. Having to deal with this, a young woman discovers secrets. I didn’t know what to expect from this author, but I’m hooked forever.~ Jackie

 

An old woman lies on her deathbed after an action-packed life as a geologist and a wildlife conservationist. But she has a dark secret that has blighted generations of her family. And so begins a wonderful story that covers the tragic genocide in German South West Africa to the evils of the ivory trade in modern day Zambia. At the heart of the story is a herd of elephants that are under threat from poachers, politicians and hunters. However Sam Jardine is once more the hero of the hour and has vowed to lead them to safety while getting his own back on the numerous villains that litter the story. This was a wonderful book that taught me so much about Africa and its history and the plight of the elephants. I read the book in two days but the story stayed with me for much longer. ~ H. Kalla

 

About the Author

Christopher Hepworth is the International Award-Winning and Bestselling Author of Sam Jardine Crime Conspiracy Thrillers Series.

Christopher Hepworth has been a professional negotiator for over thirty years, with some of the largest and best-known companies in the world. He has won numerous prestigious awards in his chosen profession of procurement and developed many of the strategies and techniques that are now widely used across the industry.

Born in the UK in 1961 and raised in Zambia in central Africa like his hero, Wilbur Smith, Christopher Hepworth now lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife, Anne and four children. Much of the spare time he finds for writing comes while watching his children play representative cricket. It’s amazing how many sentences can be written in between the fall of wickets.