

The Last Savanna
Author: Mike Bond
Narrator: Simon Mattacks
Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/07/2017
Author: Mike Bond
Narrator: Simon Mattacks
Unabridged: 8 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 03/07/2017
Mike Bond is a bestselling novelist, war and human rights correspondent, environmental activist, award-winning poet, and international energy expert. He has lived and worked in many dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels depict the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister vagaries of politics and multinational corporations, and the magical beauty of the vanishing natural world.
Mike Bond's The Last Savanna (Mandevilla Press 2013) is one of the most darkly beautiful books you will ever read. If it were non-fiction, you'd consider him a nature writer of the caliber of Matthiesen but more dystopian. Read these snippets: "Like malaria, Africa. Once bitten you can never shake it......more
"The Last Savanna" by Mike Bond is described as an existential thriller with environmental elements and a major focus on the extreme lengths we go to for love. Immediately I was swept up in the eloquent yet articulate prose, which at times delved deep into my being to touch upon experiences I have h......more
I won this book in a goodreads drawing. A book with a definite 70's vibe. A former SAS guy is living in Kenya, bored with his life on the ranch. His wife has turned into a bitter alcoholic. They're both just going through the motions. When an old friend recruits him to go after ivory poachers from Som......more
it is a must read first - because the subject. Africa. second - because there that are really beautiful and poetic, which is a rear thing in thrillers. Bond doing something very unique- he is not judging. he lets us to decide who is the good guys and who are the bad ones. if there are bad ones? some......more
Thank you Mandevilla Press for allowing me to read and review The Last Savanna on NetGalley. Published: 08/15/13 Stars: 4.5 Amazing. This is the story that block buster movies are made from. I was shocked to see this was published in 2013. This is for smart people. The synopsis says it all and I'm in......more