Tony Park Books in Order
Browse Tony Park books in order, with quick summaries, linked series guides, and where to start suggestions for his African thrillers and adventures.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
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Publication Order
30 books
Far Horizon
by Tony Park
2004
Former army officer Mike Williams is guiding tourists through Africa when police ask for help tracking the poachers who shattered his life. Revenge, journalism, and a wilderness journey pull everyone toward a violent reckoning.
Far Horizon
by Tony Park
2004
Former army officer Mike Williams is guiding tourists through Africa when police ask for help tracking the poachers who shattered his life. Revenge, journalism, and a wilderness journey pull everyone toward a violent reckoning.
Zambezi
by Tony Park
2005
After a young researcher is killed by a man-eating lion, those who loved her head into Africa to learn what really happened. Their search along the Zambezi uncovers betrayal, hidden lives, and more danger than they expected.
African Sky
by Tony Park
2006
In 1943 Rhodesia, pilot trainer Paul Bryant and volunteer policewoman Pip Lovejoy are pulled into a murder case at an air base. What starts as one brutal crime opens into a wartime conspiracy with much bigger consequences.
Safari
by Tony Park
2007
Wildlife researcher Michelle Parker, hunter Fletcher Reynolds, and ex-SAS soldier Shane Castle collide in Zimbabwe and the Congo as poaching wars escalate. It mixes conservation, danger, and messy loyalties in a tense African adventure.
Silent Predator
by Tony Park
2008
When a British minister disappears from a luxury lodge in Kruger, bodyguard Tom Furey and South African officer Sannie van Rensburg ignore orders and go after him. The search becomes a fast-moving hunt through the bush and into Mozambique.
Ivory
by Tony Park
2009
Pirate captain Alex Tremain wants one last score big enough to rebuild his family’s old Mozambique hotel. Instead he lands in a violent tangle of smugglers, killers, romance, and the brutal trade in ivory.
Part of the Pride
by Tony Park
2009
This memoir follows Kevin Richardson’s unusual life among lions and other big cats in South Africa. It looks at how he built trust with dangerous animals, and at the risks, debates, and wonder that came with that work.
The Delta
by Tony Park
2009
On the run after a failed assassination attempt, mercenary Sonja Kurtz heads to the Okavango Delta hoping for a fresh start. She finds an environmental war instead, and gets drawn into sabotage, politics, and dangerous loyalties.
African Dawn
by Tony Park
2012
Three families bound by history battle over land, love, and black rhinos in modern Zimbabwe. Old feuds and political corruption make this a big, sweeping story with conservation, family drama, and real danger at its core.
Dark Heart
by Tony Park
2012
A photograph from the Rwandan genocide links a prosecutor, a doctor, and a journalist who thought the past was buried. When an assassin comes after them, the search for answers turns personal and deadly.
The Prey
by Tony Park
2013
In South Africa’s gold mines, illegal miners and corporate power collide. Cameron McMurtrie and visiting executive Kylie Hamilton become targets of a ruthless underworld boss, and the fight moves from deep tunnels to the bush above.
The Hunter
by Tony Park
2014
Private investigator Hudson Brand hunts a woman suspected of faking her death, while detective Sannie van Rensburg tracks the same trail for darker reasons. Their search runs from South Africa to Zimbabwe and Kenya, with fraud and murder close behind.
An Empty Coast
by Tony Park
2015
When Emma Kurtz uncovers a wartime body in Namibia, Sonja and Hudson Brand are pulled into a hunt for missing treasure and old secrets. The search sweeps from Etosha to the Skeleton Coast with plenty of people willing to kill.
Red Earth
by Tony Park
2016
A carjacking ends with a baby stolen and South Africa sliding into wider chaos after a terror attack. Helicopter pilot Nia Carras and wildlife researcher Mike Dunn join the desperate chase through reserves and borderlands.
The Cull
by Tony Park
2017
Sonja Kurtz leads a covert anti-poaching squad funded by a wealthy idealist who wants results fast. When Hudson Brand starts asking questions about a dead suspect, the mission turns into a fight over justice, vengeance, and control.
Captive
by Tony Park
2018
Australian lawyer Kerry Maxwell heads to a wildlife orphanage and finds its hard-drinking vet owner jailed in Mozambique after a poaching shootout. Trying to help pulls her into kidnapping, revenge, and the murky politics of wildlife rescue.
Ghosts of the Past
by Tony Park
2019
Journalist Nick Eatwell digs into the life of his great-uncle, an Australian adventurer marked for death in early 1900s Africa. Past and present meet in Namibia, with desert horses, missing gold, and unfinished history.
Scent of Fear
by Tony Park
2019
Sean Bourke is already carrying the scars of Afghanistan when a bomb tears through an anti-poaching patrol in South Africa. Hunting the bombmaker means facing the war in the bush, and the wreckage in his own life.
Last Survivor
by Tony Park
2020
A rare cycad thought extinct is found, then stolen, and the trail leads to murder and a possible terror plot. Sonja Kurtz joins the hunt, alongside an ex-lover who knows plants almost as well as he knows trouble.
War Dogs
by Tony Park
2020
Shane Bryant recounts his work as a dog handler in Afghanistan, where trained dogs and their handlers searched for explosives beside frontline troops. It is a tense military memoir about danger, teamwork, and the bond between human and dog.
Blood Trail
by Tony Park
2021
When rhino poaching, child abductions, and belief in umuti collide near Kruger, Colonel Sannie van Rensburg and tracker Mia Greenaway chase an enemy who seems to vanish. It is part police thriller, part bush-country mystery.
Courage Under Fire
by Tony Park
2021
Daniel Keighran’s memoir traces a hard childhood, army life, and the Afghanistan battle that led to the Victoria Cross for Australia. It is direct, moving, and clear-eyed about courage, service, and cost.
Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!
by Tony Park
2022
Peter Whitehead’s memoir ranges from early safari tourism in Zambia to film sets, hunting, game ranging, and a lifetime with animals. It is a lively account of Africa in another era, with horses never far from the story.
Rhino War
by Tony Park
2022
Retired general Johan Jooste was brought in to turn Kruger’s anti-poaching fight into a tougher, more coordinated campaign. This memoir follows the pressure, politics, and danger of trying to protect rhinos on a battlefield scale.
The Pride
by Tony Park
2022
After her daughter is attacked near Cape Town, Sonja Kurtz goes after the men behind abalone poaching and lands in deeper trouble. The chase runs across southern Africa and turns into a brutal test of family and survival.
Vendetta
by Tony Park
2023
Sannie van Rensburg and guide Mia Greenaway get caught up in a long-running feud among veterans of South Africa’s Border War. The story moves from the coast to the Kalahari, where buried truths still have the power to kill.
The Protector
by Tony Park
2024
Pangolin expert Denise "Doc" Rado has already lost plenty when a sting operation goes wrong. Then she must shepherd a safari group through southern Africa while enemies close in and danger follows every stop.
Die by the Sword
by Tony Park
2025
Bodies found across South Africa pull Sannie van Rensburg and Adam Kruger into a hunt tied to the Anglo-Zulu War and Napoleon’s lost sword. It is part modern thriller, part historical mystery, with power and greed at the center.
King of Beasts
by Tony Park
2026
When Emma Kurtz is captured in Ukraine by a Russian with old ties to African poaching, Sonja heads into a dangerous rescue mission. To get her daughter back, she must work with Emma’s estranged twin sister and face international intrigue.
Where should I start?
For a first taste of Tony Park: Far Horizon → Zambezi → Safari
For a strong female-led action series: The Delta → An Empty Coast → The Cull → The Pride
For police thrillers with Sannie van Rensburg: Silent Predator → The Hunter → Blood Trail → Vendetta
For a sweeping Zimbabwean saga: African Sky → African Dawn
Author bio
Tony Park was born in Taupō, New Zealand, in 1964 and moved to Sydney as a small child. He grew up in western Sydney, including Campbelltown, and spent his early years wanting to write a novel, even if the path there turned out to be less tidy than planned.
He did well at school, dropped out of university, and got his start in suburban newspaper journalism. Later came jobs as a government press secretary, a PR consultant, and a stint on a rural newspaper in England, where the stories could be gloriously odd. That mix of deadlines, travel, and talking to people fed straight into the way he writes.
He also spent 34 years in the Australian Army Reserve, including a six-month deployment to Afghanistan in 2002 as a public affairs officer.
Africa changed the course of his writing life.
Park and his wife, Nicola, first travelled to southern Africa in 1995 on what was meant to be a one-off holiday. It was anything but. They kept going back, and after leaving full-time PR work in 1996 or 1997 to chase the old dream of writing fiction, Park eventually found the setting that clicked. An early unpublished novel came and went, but on a later trip through Africa he wrote the manuscript that became Far Horizon, his first published novel, in 2004.
That was the opening.
Since then he has written a long run of thrillers and adventures set across southern Africa, along with a shelf of collaborative biographies. Readers often come to him through books like Far Horizon, Silent Predator, The Delta, African Sky, and Ghosts of the Past. Some are fast-moving manhunts. Some lean into history. Some put wildlife crime and conservation right at the centre. A lot of them do all three at once.
Place matters in his books.
The landscapes are not just scenery. Kruger, the Okavango Delta, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, and the South African bush all shape the people who move through them. Park returns again and again to poaching, soldiers and ex-soldiers, police work, old wars that refuse to stay buried, and ordinary people pushed into hard choices. He is especially good with capable, stubborn leads, including mercenary Sonja Kurtz and detective Sannie van Rensburg, who anchor some of his best-known linked novels.
His non-fiction work tells you a lot about his interests too. Books like Part of the Pride, War Dogs, and Courage Under Fire show the same pull toward wildlife, service, risk, and the people who live close to danger.
These days Park divides his time between Sydney and southern Africa, where he and Nicola have a home on the edge of the Kruger National Park. He has said he likes Land Rovers, jukeboxes, beer, running, and singing at parties, though not necessarily in that order. He also supports charities focused on wildlife and people in Africa. That combination, journalist, soldier, traveller, and bush regular, helps explain why his novels feel so rooted in place while still moving at a thriller's pace.
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