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Sonja Kurtz – former soldier, supposedly retired mercenary – is in Vietnam carrying out a personal revenge mission when her daughter sends a call for help.
Emma is on a dig at the edge of Namibia’s Etosha National Park studying archaeology and she’s discovered a body that dates back to the country’s liberation war of the 1980s.
The remains, identified as Hudson Brand, are a key piece of a puzzle that will reveal the location of a modern-day buried treasure. A find people will kill for.
Sonja returns to the country of her birth to find Emma, but she’s missing.
Former CIA agent Hudson Brand is very much alive and is also drawn back to Namibia to finally solve a decades-old mystery whose clues are entombed in an empty corner of the desert.
Review:
An Empty Coast by Tony Park is my first taste of the author’s work, and I admit that I didn’t know what to expect when I started reading it.
Was it something along the lines of a Wilbur Smith novel? Maybe some Clive Cussler influence? I honestly had no idea.
It’s probably also a good thing that I didn’t read any reviews beforehand, because it would have spoiled the fun, but I wanted to go into this one blind. I mean, it’s the type of book I sometimes crave, you know?
Once I started reading An Empty Coast, I couldn’t stop. From the first page, all the way to the end, I was enthralled by the story.
We have strong, intelligent female characters who complement their male counterparts, instead of fading into the background. We have the beautiful Namibian scenery, which is not often described as lusciously as Park’s descriptions.
We have an epic adventure with enough action to give adrenaline junkies a good fix. Then there’s also the mystery that keeps you guessing as to what’ll happen next. All in all, it’s a gripping novel that’ll get your blood pumping and your heart racing!
An Empty Coast is incredibly enjoyable, and will appeal to a wide audience.
What I did hear, after reading the book, is that although An Empty Coast is a standalone novel, its characters do appear in Park’s previous works. Keep that in mind when you’ve finished the book.
Read more of Monique’s reviews on her blog.
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