Bound hand and foot in the path of a raging forest fire started by a murderous arsonist, Kevin Wright manages to escape, only to find himself accused of starting the fire. Befriended by Janet Mercer, a lonely widow who is struggling to raise two children on a run-down dairy farm, he helps her to rebuild her shattered life and finances although his instincts are to drop everything and run away. As more fires spring up throughout the forest, threatening the livelihood of the entire town of Tokoroa, Kevin helps to keep them under control, and tracks down the crazed arsonist - who is the last person anyone would have suspected. The forces of nature eventually extinguish the fires - but those same forces also exact their own crippling toll . . .

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Born in a small village in the English Midlands, Mark Atwell has spent nearly forty years living and working in some of the most remote and inaccessible corners of the earth, from the depths of the Sahara to the wild Australian Outback, from the windswept Shetlands to the frozen wastes of Canada, and from the polders of Holland to the pastures of New Zealand. He has climbed pyramids in Egypt and Palenque and been entertained in the harems of the Hadhramaut; shot pheasant on Scottish estates and caught game fish off White Island; canoed icy rivers in Canada and climbed erupting Hawaiian volcanoes; been attacked by marauding Libyans and dodged Scud missiles in Arabia; and all his experiences are finding their way into his novels. His first novel Tango was published in 1989 by Robert Hale of London. It was conceived while Mark was working on a North Sea oil platform, and was written long before the tragedy of the 'Piper Alpha' made it uncannily prescient. Tango was followed in 1994 by The Falcon's Nest, which is based on Mark's personal experiences in the wealthy sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi. Banned in nine countries, this book prompted Gary Roen to claim that Mark Atwell is the real successor to Ian Fleming.Mother of Inventions, which was first published in 1999, employs the same main characters as The Falcon's Nest. This is the story of their search for the Iraqi atom bombs, whose existence no one will officially acknowledge. They find them - but not before the Iraqis place one of them in the heart of a European capital. Another chilling premonition, perhaps . . .? Tokoroa is a mill town in the heart of New Zealand's North Island, where Mark's youngest daughter was born and Mark was responsible for the forestry radio network. A quiet, peaceful place - until someone sets fire to the forest during the longest drought the country has ever known, and systematically destroys the forestry radio network the firemen need to fig

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