KILL THE BOER: GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN SOUTH AFRICA’S BRUTAL FARM MURDERS

PROMIS: Rhodesia

Sean Deckard is an American refugee, trapped between his experiences in the Vietnam War and whatever was supposed to come next. Bouncing out of the Spanish Foreign Legion, he finds more than he bargained for in the Rhodesian Special Air Service just as the Bush War begins to heat up.

Teamed up with a young Rhodesian who could have gotten a deferment and an Australian veteran soldier with a dark past, they conduct one cross border mission after the next, escaping the clutches of death by the skin of their teeth. As Rhodesia heads into a full blown conflagration, these soldiers refuse to acknowledge that their tactical victories could possibly result in a strategic defeat.

Issue #2 in this new military fiction series, PROMIS: Rhodesia can also be read as a stand alone work.

Novella / Approx. 90 Pages

PROMIS: South Africa

In apartheid South Africa it is a time of triple agents, counter-coups, and false flag terrorism. Sean Deckard has fought dirty little wars against communism from Vietnam, to Laos, to Rhodesia, and Angola, but now he will be fighting to prevent a war from happening. Breaking a political dissident out of a high security prison was the easy part. Launching a coup in order to prevent two black homelands, Ciskei and Transkei, from going to war with each other will be somewhat more problematic. Fighting the momentum towards open war, Sean will learn how deep conspiracy runs in the background of world events.

Issue #3 in the PROMIS military fiction series!

Novella/Approx. 78 pages

PROMIS: Vietnam

Sergeant Sean Deckard has been running recon with America's ultra secret Studies and Observations Group for over a year, taking part in cross border operations into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam. Coming off a mission that nearly decimates his entire team, Sean is given yet another suicidal task. It is a mission that could end the Vietnam War, a mission that powerful forces will do anything to prevent from happening.

Issue One in an exciting new military fiction series.

Short Story / Approx. 45 pages.

The Zulus and Matabele: Warrior Nations

This highly readable and informative volume records the dramatic histories of southern Africa’s two most renowned warrior nations, related tribes that dominated much of the region for most of the 19th century.

The lively and authoritative text recounts the lives and times of such colourful figures as Shaka and Mzilikazi, the founders of the Zulu and Matabele (Ndebele) kingdoms. It also discusses events such as the epic Great Trek, which pitted migrant Boers against the Zulus and Matabele, most notably at the ferocious Battle of Blood River. Subsequent chapters also contain well-informed accounts of battles of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879— such as Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift and Khambula—and of the conquest and settlement of Zimbabwe in the 1890s by the forces of Cecil Rhodes.

The text concludes by outlining Matabele involvement in the Rhodesian Bush War of the 1960s and 70s, and the events that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Where To Now South Africa: A Novel

Politics in South Africa are extremely volatile. One minute the country seems about to sink, the next it makes a remarkable recovery, only to begin sinking again like a roller coaster ride. Will this pattern continue, or could a new, extremist, regime plunge the country into dangerous uncharted territory? This fact-based, near future novel sketches some likely scenarios. Based on the novel, “The Girl Who Couldn’t Be Hypnotised”, it focuses more on South Africa, eliminating scenes that do not advance that theme.

The Spirit of Nehanda: A Rhodesian Game Ranger's War Story

Nehanda is a story about three people: a black Mashona boy, a half-Chinese/half Mashona girl, and a white Rhodesian boy, all of the same age. The white boy's father owned the farm on which they all grew up. The three friends developed a close-knit threesome during their teenage years. The black boy taught the white boy about the traditions of his people and how to speak his Mzezuru language. The white boy taught the black boy how to shoot with his .22 rifle, and he taught him and the girl how to speak English. The black boy and the girl became lovers when they were fourteen years old and by the time they were all seventeen the girl had seduced the white boy, too. Throughout her life she held a special place in her heart for her handsome, white teenage lover.The friendship broke up, through force of circumstance, when they all left school.

Fifteen years later, the black man and the woman, now husband and wife, joined the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA). They become two of Robert Mugabe's 'freedom fighters'. They achieved high rank in ZANLA and they fought to liberate the Zimbabwe people from what they considered to be the oppressive regime of the white Rhodesian government.

The white boy achieved his dream of becoming a game warden. When war broke out he offered his big game hunting and tracking skills to the Rhodesian Security Forces. He, together with his two Bushman trackers, used their combined big game hunting expertise to track down and to engage what the Rhodesians called the ZANLA 'terrorists'. As a team, they became renowned and highly accomplished hunters of men.

The ancestor worshipping cult of the northern Mashona people permeates the story. It truly affected both the direction of the war and the outcome of events. The narrative tells just how all this happened. The senior spirit of this religion is called 'Nehanda'.

Inevitably, the two men come face to face in combat and the woman becomes the deciding factor in the story's conclusion.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 1

The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 2

This is the second mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 3

This is the third mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 4

This is the fourth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 5

This is the fifth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 6

This is the sixth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunters Tales - A Hunters Trails Volume 7

This is the seventh mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunters Tales - A Hunters Trails Volume 8

This is the eighth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 9

This is the ninth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales - A Hunter's Trails Volume 10

This is the tenth mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

A Hunter's Tales Volume 11

This is the eleventh mini-book in the series. The African big game hunting stories recounted in this mini-book series have been written especially for KINDLE. They are drawn from Ron Thomson’s 24 years of service as a game ranger/game warden in the Rhodesian Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management - and before. They come from the period 1955 to 1980, the final 25 years of the colonial era in Africa.

Rhodesia, the last of the European possessions in Africa to be de-colonised disappeared into the mists of time when the British colony of Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1980.

There are many epic tales in this series. They are likely to be the last of the truly free-range/fair-chase big game hunting stories to come out of Africa’s colonial past. Many are hunting adventure gems - epic stories - the likes of which, and the circumstances of which, can never be repeated, and we would not like you, the reader, to lose any of their consequent richness. We intend, therefore, to provide you with enough background information to make each hunt properly meaningful.

During the time these adventures took place, the political and social environment in Rhodesia changed drastically; as did the situation with its wildlife. The stories are affected by these changes but we will ease you through the comprehension process smoothly; and in a manner that does not clog the flow of the narratives.

Most of the people who once enjoyed this type of hunting have already gone to a happier hunting ground; and, anyway, there are very few of the old-timers who had big game hunting scores anywhere close to those of this author. These hunting stories out of colonial Africa, therefore, are likely to be the last of their kind - ever.

God Created Man the Hunter (Big Game Hunting Memoir Series Book 1)

This is the first big game hunting memoir book in a series of six. God Created Man the Hunter chronicles the author’s development as a game ranger and big game hunter in colonial Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

By the time he was twenty, besides a goodly score of soft-skinned animals, he had killed six leopards, one elephant and a 14 foot-long crocodile. He hunted these animals on his own and he solved all the problems he encountered by trial and error.

He does not project himself as being a fearless young man who had the capacity, then, to hunt down these dangerous animals in a gung-ho fashion. The first leopard he shot was the first leopard he had ever seen. The first elephant he shot was the second elephant he had seen. He honestly describes the terrible fears and serious doubts he endured whilst executing these early hunts.

In November 1959, aged twenty, he joined Rhodesia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management as a game ranger. He was first posted to the Matopos National Park where, in less than a year, his leopard tally rose to nearly twenty.

In October 1960 he was transferred to Main Camp, Hwange National Park. Within three months, in the company of a more senior game ranger who was his mentor, he hunted eighteen elephants, five buffaloes and a hippo; and he had killed one stock-killing lion on his own. These animals were all tracked down with Bushman trackers and shot outside the boundaries of the national park. After January 1961, he began hunting all these dangerous game animals on his own.

His confidence grew, in tandem, with his constantly increasing experience.

Some of the hunts the author describes in this book will surely be recorded as being amongst the most exciting African big game hunting stories ever told. This book has been adapted from its original hardcopy form for Kindle. ALL photographs present in the original version have been removed to facilitate downloading.

Stand Your Ground (Big Game Hunting Memoir Series Book 2)

This book is the SECOND in the series of six that comprises the author’s big game hunting memoirs. It covers the period 1961 to 1964 and describes the author’s maturing years as a big game hunting game ranger. In the beginning, the author was briefly mentored by a more experienced game ranger, who took great pains to teach him how to kill an elephant cleanly with a single brain shot; but he was shown only once how to shoot a buffalo. Then he was let loose to hunt any and all of Africa’s dangerous ‘Big Five’ game animals on his own. When he first went hunting them, however, he realised there were gaps in his hunting competence that you could drive a bus through; and he had to rely on his Bushman trackers to help him fill in the gaps.

This was a very exciting time in the author’s life but it was also a very dangerous time because he truly was not fully competent to do what was expected of him. This book is all about how he filled in those gaps, and how his Bushman trackers brought him up to a state of complete big game hunting proficiency. By the end of this period, at age 24 years old, he had become a highly experienced big game hunter. Some of the bizarre hunting adventures he went through in the process, however, would have put the fear of God into most people. This book has been adapted from its original hardcopy from for Kindle. All photographs present in the original version have been removed to facilitate downloading.