Description
'It's war. And right now we're losing it.'
Hal and Roger Hunt fly straight into the jaws of death when they join warden Mark Crosby in Tsavo, an African park where poaching is big business. And with a gang leaving behind a blood-stained trail of terror and torture, the heat is on for the brothers to solve the string of mysterious murders - before they too become victims . . .
A reissue of Willard Price's classic adventure series set in the animal kingdom
About the Author
Willard Price was born in 1887 in Peterborough, Ontario. He held a special interest for natural history, ethnology and exploration and made numerous expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History and the National Geographic Society.
He went on to edit various magazines on travel and world affairs and spent six years working in Japan as foreign correspondent for New York and London newspapers. He wrote fourteen adventure stories featuring Hal and Roger Hunt and travelled in seventy-seven countries before his death in 1983.
Reviews
Price knew all the right buttons to press to excite a young reader - exotic locations, nasty villains, wild animals and lashings of peril -- David Barnett * Guardian *
Willard Price makes the pulse-rate soar * Independent *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099482284
Author Willard Price
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Red Fox
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm