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Guy enjoys travelling and integrating into new cultures, and his love of Malagsay life and people soon develops. He also quickly understands the challenges of managing an antique transport system in sub Saharan Africa. Soon after his arrival, the State railway is unexpectedly purchased by an emerging local business magnate, Marcel Ravatomanga, who is linked to the Mauritian mafia.

By chance, Guy discovers that the railway is being used to export shipments of illegally logged Rosewood from Madagascar in direct contravention of UN Environmental rules. As he learns more about how the new owner is using the trains to hide these exports and launder millions of Dollars of criminal funds, his life becomes threatened and he is kidnapped by the loggers.

After he succeeds in escaping from capture with the help of his beautiful Malagasy lover, they attempt to halt a train exporting rosewood by disabling the locomotive on the famous ”Boucle” helix spiral on the Tananarive line leading down to the coast.

A furious chase to halt the runaway train and stop this illegal export of precious hardwood culminates in an intriguing espionage battle within the Indian Ocean port of Toamasina, where pirates lived in the late 1600’s after fleeing from the Caribbean, and the idyllic paradise island of Mauritius.

Guy’s role as a railway consultant turns into a mixture of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond as he continues to savour and enjoy the tastes of the Red Island, Madagascar.
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Guy Lucan Series

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