A forgotten African war. A missing treasure worth killing for. German South West Africa 1906, Australian horse trader Cyril Blake is executed in cold blood by the Kaisers soldiers. Sydney, the present day. Blakes greatgreat nephew, recently widowed Nick Eatwell, is approached by South African journalist Susan Vidler who is investigating his ancestors mysterious demise. Intrigued and looking for distraction, Nick discovers a longlost manuscript which tells how Blake stayed in South Africa after serving in the Anglo Boer War and joined the Nama people in their rebellion against the Germans in South West Africa, modernday Namibia. In Munich, historian Anja Berghoff, researching the origin of the wild ghost horses of Namibia, stumbles across intriguing letters from IrishGerman spy Claire Martin, with whom Blake had an affair. As Nick and Anjas paths cross, they find themselves racing through southern Africa and time on the trail of a legend. But theyre not alone. Someone else is chasing these ghosts of the past, looking for clues to a hidden treasure worth killing for. Ghosts of the Past is based on a true story.

Binding: Paperback;440 pages; Publisher: AJP; Classification: N/A; Weight: 762.74 g; Dimensions: N/A

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