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Tony Maxwell

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in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Born and educated in South Africa, Tony Maxwell settled for a time in London. While travelling in Mexico and Canada, he met his wife Wendy, a fellow South African. They lived for 12 years in Australia before returning to Canada where they now live. Tony has written two non-fiction books, ‘Searching for the Queen’s Cowboys’ and ‘Pacific War Ghosts.’ His first novel, ‘The Young Lions’ was followed by its sequel, ‘The Brave Men.'
His next novel, 'A Forest of Spears,' was published in June of 2016 and followed in November 2017 by his most recent novel, 'The Last Wild Rhino.'
He is currently working on 'Tracking Evil,' a novel dealing with drug smuggling in Southern Africa, scheduled to be published in May 2020.
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	TRACKING EVIL: An African Adventure Story 3.89 avg rating — 496 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Young Lions 4.25 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Wild Rhino 3.96 avg rating — 328 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brave Men 4.30 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Forest of Spears: An African Adventure Story 4.07 avg rating — 233 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen's Cowboys 3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pacific War Ghosts 3.61 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uitlander : Emma (The Uitlander, #1) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Texas Death Row: Reflections of a Different World (Volume 8) (Huntsville History) by Jennifer Gauntt (Editor), Mr. David Lewis (Editor), Danny Paul Bible (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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In his latest book, Tracking Evil, author Tony Maxwell makes frequent mention of an enormous bull elephant known to Detective Inspector Andre Meyer's father as Ndlulamithi, a traditional Tsonga word meaning `Taller than the Trees.`

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Dodging Tides: The Battle of Tarawa

by Edward Theriot

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A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

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Little Children (DI Kim Stone, #22)

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“What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat

tags: life, writing

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“The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like the catacombs of the Colosseum, and American gladiators aboveground, exposed on all sides, using liquid gasoline to burn their opponents out of their lethal hiding places.

All of this on an island five and a half miles long and two miles wide. An area smaller than Doc Bradley's hometown of Antigo, but bearing ten times the humanity. A car driving sixty miles an hour could cover its length in five and a half minutes. For the slogging, dying Marines, it would take more than a month.”
― James Bradley, Flags of Our Fathers

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