Peter Riva
"Thought provoking..." was how Arthur C. Clarke described my first book's preface, and then he oh-so-generously agreed to write the foreword. "Sightseeing" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985, ed. Victoria Wilson) by Barbara Hitchcock and me contained 120 never-before released images taken by astronauts in space - an edit down from 275,000 images we uncovered. Space, science, the wild, traveling, and the environment has always been a fascination for me- to study, chronicle, assist (when I can) and always let one's imagination fly.
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Murder On Safari
Only a reality TV producer and an expert safari guide can stop a terrorist attack.
Every adventure starts at the fringes of civilization. For expert safari guide Mbuno and wildlife television producer Pero Baltazar, filming in the wild of East Africa should have been a return to the adventure they always loved. This time they’d be filming soaring vultures in northern Kenya and giant sea crocodiles in Tanzania with Mary, the daughter of the world’s top television evangelist, the very reverend Jimmy Threte.
But when a terrorist cell places them in the crosshairs, there is suddenly no escape and they must put their filming aside and combine all their talents to thwart an all-out al-Shabaab terrorist attack on Jimmy Threte’s Christian gathering of hundreds of thousands in Nairobi, Kenya.
The problem is, Pero has a secret—he's been working as a clandestine courier for the US State Department for years. If anyone finds out, it may get them all killed. Exciting and expertly plotted, Murder on Safari is a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller set in the great wide-open plains of East Africa.