Crisis In Elephant Valley (2023)

Fresh from completing his doctorate at Oxford University, Mark Weston finds himself heading up a multi-disciplinary environmental and social research project in Zambia’s remote, game-rich Luangwa Valley. His team soon uncovers that villagers are dying inexplicably and Weston treks through back country infested with tsetse flies to find the cause. 

He finds links to powerful individuals behind an explosion of commercial-scale poaching which has all but wiped out the black rhinos and decimated the valley’s iconic elephant population. Weston survives his small plane being shot down and is catapulted into a mission to track down those responsible for the war on the valley’s wildlife. 

The fast-moving thriller unfolds across Zambia’s spectacular landscapes and wilderness areas, and confronts serious environmental and socio-economic challenges facing the communities who struggle to survive in the remote valley. 

This novel is a prequel to Barry Dalal-Clayton’s trilogy: Beneath The Roof of Africa; The Wealth Of The Thirstlands: and Song Of The Snow Leopard.  

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The Hidden Hand Of The Bear (2024)

A ruthless Zambian businessman intimidating villagers, illegal mining scarring a national park, a drug trading network and Russian guards masquerading as energy technicians. 

In this fast-moving eco-thriller, Dr Mark Weston, internationally acclaimed environmentalist, is back in Zambia after an absence of twenty years. His mission is to assess the environmental impacts of a government plan to expand the country’s renewable energy production. But he finds himself increasingly entangled in the pieces of this jigsaw. 

When Weston and his girlfriend join forces with an American military intelligence agency to investigate clandestine activities at a heavily guarded lithium mine, they are forced to flee for their lives through remote escarpment country flanking the Zambezi Valley.

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A River Died (2026)

In another fast-moving eco-thriller, internationally acclaimed environmentalist, Dr Mark Weston, returns to Zambia to assess the impacts of mining and teams up with his lawyer girlfriend who is investigating bank hacking.

His work quickly pits him against a ruthless Chinese investor and Russian agents, each with their own sinister economic and political agendas. After Weston finds evidence that environmental regulations are being seriously ignored with alarming consequences, a major accident at a copper mine leads to a national environmental disaster.

Are these events linked? Can Weston avoid attempts to kill him and discover what is going on before it is too late? 

The book is a sequel to The Hidden Hand Of The Bear.

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