In 1930s Southern Rhodesia gold is found on a farm but the all powerful British South Africa Company holds the mineral rights and its intervention could mean ruin for the discoverers.
The farmer and his partner, Daniel Walker, decide to conceal the find and smuggle the gold to South Africa. The initial effort is successful but the district’s senior police officer is determined to prevent the smuggling to the extent that it becomes an all consuming obsession.
Can they thwart the policeman or will the conflict end up in death and disaster for all?
Matabele Gold
ISBN 9780-956-3430-2-4
There is nothing more refreshing to read about a period that you don’t know anything about and to feel that a window has been opened onto that world. This novel has that quality. The author is able to create a living image of the Southern Rhodesian bush lands.
Myfanwy Cook, The Historical Novels Review
The period detail and African settings are nicely drawn … a suspenseful read, as good of its kind as any more commercial product.
Wayne Burrows, The Big Issue in the North