Ivory Empire

The men who control the ivory trade rarely touch the ivory.

After the events of Ghosts of the Savannah, Kofi Tendai Ndlovu has returned to Victoria Falls hoping the worst of the fight is behind him. Then Dr Amara Okafor uncovers a pattern buried inside legitimate investments, transport companies, conservation businesses and financial deals stretching across several African countries.

Someone is buying access.

When an independent financial investigator disappears while following the same trail, Kofi is drawn back into a world where wildlife trafficking is only one part of a much larger operation. The people behind it do not move contraband themselves. They control routes, businesses, debt and information, allowing others to take the risks while they collect the profits.

As Kofi, Amara and their allies follow the network across borders, the investigation becomes increasingly dangerous. Witnesses are threatened, evidence disappears, and respected businessmen prove every bit as ruthless as the poachers and traffickers working beneath them.

To expose the empire, Kofi must do more than find the men moving ivory.

He must prove who owns the system that allows it to move at all.

Ivory Empire is Book Two in The Dark Stranger series, an African action and conservation thriller about wildlife crime, corruption, loyalty and the people willing to stand between profit and extinction.