APHRODISIAC - A Book in the Jack Delaney Chronicles E-Book

Terry Hayward

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Rhinos are being poached from a Private Game Reserve and Jack Delaney and his team are called in to investigate and put a stop to this blight. There is little time to waste and the non-stop action moves from the offices of the owners of the Big 5 Game Reserves into the bushveld setting of the Game reserve. Crocodile and hippo infested rivers become potential murder weapons as a Game Ranger is kidnapped - and murder, too, rears its ugly head. The mob are ruthless in their attempts to take over control of a Private Game Reserve so that they can use it as a staging post for their smuggling and poaching activities, and the battle for control comes to a head in the dark of an African night in and amongst the crocodiles and hippos in a river bed.

Leseprobe

APHRODISIAC

The Jack Delaney Chronicles

By

Terry Hayward

Aphrodisiac

Copyright © 2014 Terry Hayward

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Abela Publishing Ltd.

Sandhurst, Berkshire, England

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.AbelaPublishing.com/TerryHayward.html

ISBN 13: 978-1-909302-74-7

First Edition, 2014

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you,

plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29: 11

Chapter 1

The word ‘aphrodisiac’ is defined by the Concise Oxford Dictionary as ‘(drug) producing venereal desire’ and then in turn defines ‘venereal’ as ‘of sexual intercourse’, thus aphrodisiac probably means a ‘desire communicated by sexual intercourse’.

Now, to me, that simply means that an aphrodisiac is supposed to make you feel horney, like you want to participate in sexual intercourse (probably ‘love’ is the wrong word to use here in our modern day as I believe that anyone who needs an aphrodisiac without medical reasons, is merely in it for the lust, not love). An example of what an aphrodisiac would be is ‘Rhino horn’ which some Eastern people believe makes them feel really sexy. I suppose it’s actually the men, not so much the women, who are turned on by a dose of rhino horn. My personal opinion is that women are more likely to find diamonds an aphrodisiac, except that they will, hopefully, not be ingesting them.

This leads me into the new case I’ve been asked to investigate. A certain large South African Hotel and Leisure Resort Company, the Sebastian Group, had contacted me and asked me to meet with them this morning to investigate the shooting of five rhinos in their newest acquisition, a private game reserve in Zululand, and the consequent stealing of the rhinos’ horns on the reserve. The presumption was that an overseas organization is behind the killing and theft because of the belief that that is what the horns are being used for (to manufacture aphrodisiacs). There was also the generally accepted belief that middle-eastern Arabs (I hope that this politically OK to say) were using part of the horns as dagger handles.

I attended the meeting that morning at the Group’s Durban Sebastian Hotel (known simply as ‘The Sebastian’, as are all their hotels around, not only South Africa, but internationally as well). This hotel, like all their hotels, has a five star rating! Nothing but the best and nothing spared for the enjoyment of their guests. A comparatively small hotel (I suppose in their case I should use a capitol ‘H’ for the word Hotel) with only fifty bedrooms (maybe suites would be a better word to describe these rooms), but with everything you would hope for, for the prices you pay. It’s old, but oh so elegant. You don’t just sit in their lounge chairs, you really do lounge in them. Irrespective of your body shape or size, you are left with the feeling that that particular chair was designed specifically with you in mind, unlike the huge, posh chairs in the office of my good friend the Deputy Attorney General.