Don Hollway presents his action/adventure novel, Dangerous Game. Like Wilbur Smith–his epic novels "Birds of Prey" and "Monsoon"–Holloway pulls no punches with his writing. Dangerous Game is hard-hitting action set in recent Africa.

Lodi, WI July 11, 2004 -– In Mogadishu, Hussein Mohammed Aidid is an AWOL Marine raised in the States since he was a teenager. Aidid's father, Mohammed Farah, was the warlord brought to power during, and largely responsible for overthrowing, the regime of President Mohammed Siad Biarre.

After eluding attempts by Delta Force and the US Army Rangers to capture him during Operation "Restore Hope," the elder Aidid was killed while fighting in July 1996.

In 1993, Sergeant Mike McKay's sniper team escorts US-raised Somali Karim Aziz behind the lines in Mogadishu. But Mike's partner "Mig" Sanchez is captured and tortured. During a rescue mission, Aziz betrays the team, forcing Mike to shoot Mig.

Revealing he's actually the local warlord's son, Aziz deserts to join the enemy, and Mike barely escapes.

In modern Northeast Kenya, Mike and his overseer Matthew Mboya hunt a man-eating leopard on Mike's money-strapped rhino ranch, Kifaro Shamba. The leopard, which has killed a child, savages one of the locals before Mike exterminates the animal, only then discovering Somali poachers had already set the snare wire that crippled it.

When corrupt Kenya Wildlife Service game warden, Stephen Karanja, hears of the attack, he uses it as an excuse to threaten confiscating Kifaro Shamba.

Countering this confrontation, Mike arms himself with a powerful conservationist group headed by Harrison Soames, who arrives with a private C-130 full of military gear, a briefcase full of Euros, and bodyguards -- Dieter Jost and Lana Dobrosky.

American embassy representative/CIA agent Parker Blake, officially on hand to assist Soames, warns Mike that Soames is a powerbroker of international scope; with a penchant for safaris in the world's trouble spots, Soames' guides seldom return and the conservationist group is his private mercenary platoon, Dieter being a former member of the South African secret police, Lana an ex-Russian Spetsnaz.

Mike discovers the real objective of the Mogadishu mission was to sneak Aziz into a position to become the main warlord in Somalia. Blake warns him that he may soon find himself caught between Soames and Aziz.

The current situation in Iraq is leading the way for a swarm of military based fiction. Historical fiction has always held Africa as its brewing grounds for similar books. However, Holloway's work is unique in focusing on animal poaching and political scandals that have been present far longer on the big continent and continue to plague mankind and nature.

Don Hollway is an avid hunter, fisherman and rifleman. He's been published in Scientific American, Military History, World War II, Aviation History, and Wild West magazines, and anthologized in WWII Air War (Cowles Enthusiast Media, 1998).

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