This interesting book about the motor industry was first published in 2009. It traces Peter Cleary’s career, starting as a trainee at Ford South Africa where he held positions in personnel, marketing and product planning and did three overseas postings to World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, the Dunton Research Centre of Ford of Europe in Kent, England and to Ford Asia-Pacific in Melbourne, Australia. Cleary’s second automotive employer was Mercedes-Benz of South Africa where he became...

Adam Geard is only 8-years old when he witnesses a brutal rape and murder by the notorious Red Brigade on his parents’ farm on the Khami River near the Zimbabwean town of Bulawayo. The victims of the ethnic cleansing are their farm foreman, his wife and two young children. For decades Adam has had unexplained behaviour, often extreme, the legacy of the stress disorder condition he suffers. He chooses to work as a geologist in the wilderness of Namibia, believing he might discover the sourc...

Caleb Jordan follows in his father's footsteps and becomes a pastor in the Baptist Church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. He wants more and his passion to bring the gospel to people in the deep rural communities of Africa drives him to open a mission near the Nuanetzi River in upper Gaza province, Mozambique. It is there that history catches up with him five years later with tragic consequences. A sangoma wronged in the Bush War seeks her revenge and viciously attacks the mission with the aid of he...

Caleb is a modern African tragedy. It is a tragedy arising from the terrible wars which sweep the continent, and out of the clash of cultures and beliefs. Caleb Jordan is born into a family of pastors. He becomes a servant of God, suffers a devastating failure of a marriage and chooses to start a mission in deep rural Africa. He has much success but lives constantly in the shadow of a dark reality of ancestor worship and witchcraft and the challenge they bring to his faith. The setting is ...

In the winter of 1981 Luke Calder was taken into custody by the security branch of the South African Police Service as he attempted to enter the pedestrian gate into his residence at Rhodes University. In many ways Luke was an extraordinary young man: top of his law class three years running, a provincial long distance runner and a leader, elected Senior Student of College House and a member of the Students’ Representative Council. It didn’t help him, and in the next week he was kept in so...

Adam Geard is drawn into the area of simmering insurrection in the Palma district of Mozambique in an attempt to rescue an old team mate from Iraq who has been kidnapped. What he finds is the deep secret of more than two decades of a drug trade which routes heroin from those northern ports for transhipment into South Africa and onward to European and Australasian markets. His activities make him a target for those involved in the trade and those who support and sustain it, including the se...

Nic Riley had everything going for him: a promising career, a beautiful home, a successful wife, and a loving daughter. But he wanted and needed more, and it drove him to an irrational act that telescoped him into another sphere, one in which there were no absolutes. The new road he took contained great risk, to his life and his soul, a lonely road filled with the pain of separation, of guilt and loss, but one which could lead to self-clemency, perhaps even to be accorded a victory.

He was a rising star, credited with the success of a major coup in the market, but there was a deeply hidden flaw – a shameful family secret – and when it surfaced his achievements crumbled, dissolving his fragile self-worth. * * * * * The context of this novel is the fiercely competitive South African light commercial vehicle market and the brilliant challenge being mounted by the usurper, Ford’s Ranger, on the decade-long dominance of the leader, the Toyota Hilux. It is also a human dram...

“The people will cry when they see their sacred lands being eaten by the river.” The heartland of the Himba people is threatened by the proposal to build a hydro-electric dam on the Kunene River. Adam Geard is hired by Rivers for Life to lobby for a less damaging solution to Namibia’s power needs. His quest becomes personal when a Himba friend and his family is savagely tortured and murdered for the crime of speaking out against the dam. Strong forces are at work: greed for the financial s...

He volunteered to join the war to liberate Namibia of its colonial masters. His intentions were never honourable, driven as they were by boredom and a desire for self-gratification, and he found what he wanted in the lust of killing and in sexual domination. They called him Kaptein. Adam Geard returns to Namibia after a two year absence, his desire a peaceful rest in the red dune country of the Kalahari. At the first overnight stop, in the town of Gochas, he hears rumours of young Nama gir...

Racked with guilt at his part in the tragic events that occurred at the Black Mountain Mine in the Northern Cape, Jack McCall withdraws from society, hiding himself at a remote lodge near the Brandberg Mountain Massif. For three years he works as their maintenance man, shunning contact with anyone who could identify him with the past Then three events happen in quick succession. The first is an act of nature. Near the lodge where he works there is a large flock of sandgrouse. They regularl...

The battle of iSandlwana in 1879 was the worst defeat suffered by a British army in the colonies. The names of some of the combatants resound even today in the chronicles of the Victorian era. One of them was Colonel Anthony Durnford, Irish-born Royal Engineer, an enigmatic man both loved and maligned, and seen in some quarters to have contributed to the appalling defeat. Yet others see in him a man ahead of his time, a man of liberal views and steadfast integrity. But who was this man? Wh...