The Zambezi Incident

By Jack Hagen

The Zambezi Incident begins on a safari in the African bush that ends in a deadly encounter with smugglers. A professional hunter is in the bush with his client when their group is attacked by three... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413752306
• ISBN13: 9781413752304
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

The Zambezi Incident, a review by Jim Woods

The Zambezi Incident finds Zimbabwe-based professional safari hunter David Collins basically in the wrong place at the right time. What should be the usual well planned and equally well carried out safari with his client from the Midwest, turns into a terror-filled disaster for the client, and transforms Collins into a globetrotting hunter- and quarry- of al Qaeda. It all started innocently enough, so Collins and his safari party thought. Collins has been successful in putting his client onto most of the trophies the client wanted, and had set up a blind on the Zambezi River for bagging the crocodile that would make the safari complete. That river, though, just happened to be the highway for a fast-moving boat carrying al Qaeda terrorists that already had engaged in a bloody shootout over a cache of diamonds to be used for financing Jihad against the democracies of the world. About the time the safari hunter made his shot on the crocodile, the terrorists entered the same area of the river, and assumed the gunfire was directed at them. In the ensuing gunfight, hunters against terrorists, the hunters appeared to come out winners. Certainly Collins thought so when he found himself in possession of millions of dollars worth of al Qaeda diamonds. The al Qaeda hierarchy took a dim view of losing its war chest and systematically tracked down, tortured and killed anyone who was in the safari party or anyone close to the victims, all in an effort to track down Collins. Collins realized that he was being tracked and had to escape from Zimbabwe, but the only way he could was to convert the diamonds to cash. To accomplish this, the globetrotting PH had to travel, clandestinely, to Antwerp, The Cayman islands, Germany, London and the United States where he established a rural fortress against the terrorists that might discover his whereabouts. Reluctantly, at the urging of his lady friend whose parents were among the victims of the al Qaeda revenge against Collins, he and she left the safety of that hideaway to return to southern Africa where they caught up with, and survived the final confrontation with the al Qaeda terrorists. The Zambezi Incident is a tautly plotted page-turner, well written, with insight, by author Jack Hagen, and more than likely symbolizes events going on in the shadows of the world today where cultures collide.