Tony Park is the Australian author of five thriller novels set in southern Africa.  His sixth novel, IVORY is due for release August 1.  IVORY deals with two controversial issues facing modern day Africa – the increase in piracy off the continent’s coast, and the planned reintroduction of elephant culling in South Africa.

Tony and his wife, Nicola, spend six months of every year traveling through Africa, where Tony researches and writes his books.  His books, FAR HORIZON (2004), ZAMBEZI (2005), AFRICAN SKY (2006), SAFARI (2007) , and SILENT PREDATOR (2008) deal with issues such as conservation, hunting, poaching, crime, and corruption.

Tony was born in 1964 and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He has worked as a newspaper reporter in Australia and England, a government press secretary, a public relations consultant, and a freelance writer.

He is also a major in the Australian Army Reserve and served six months in Afghanistan in 2002 as the public affairs officer for the Australian ground forces.

When they’re not in Africa, camping in the continent’s magnificent national parks and living out of the back of their old Series III Land Rover (which they leave garaged in southern Africa), Tony and Nicola live in Sydney.