Chris Stone Series

Chris Stone has one passion in an otherwise staid existence; fishing in wild places. Stuck in a soulless job and a failed marriage, he decides to do something truly radical with his arid life: give it all up and put a 'gone fishing' sign on the door. But he wants to fish with a difference. He wants to catch fish that have seldom, if ever, seen humans before. To do so, he has to fish in the most dangerous places in the world. What follows is a roller-coaster adventure, from being hijacked in South Africa, kidnapped in Colombia, escaping jihadists in Chechnya and finally fighting for his life in the far outbacks of Canada. Along the way he unwittingly embarks on a journey of discovery and romance far removed from the concrete confines of his previous life. He meets an array of people; outlaws living on the hard edges, revolutionaries who believe it's more fun to be Che Guevara than Bill Gates, outdoorsmen who live the 'soul' of the planet, and beautiful women who, like him, are running from reality. Some are honorable; some despicable. But none are boring

A Liberian businessman is given six hours to pay for a mysterious cargo of weapons in Monrovia — or his son will die. Al-Shabaab terrorists raid an idyllic Kenyan beach resort, kidnapping a British diplomat's daughter. An American special forces soldier uncovers plans to cause global mayhem and bloodshed building radioactive 'dirty' bombs in uranium-rich West Africa. Alaskan adventurer Chris Stone is dragged into this murderous imbroglio with his partner Debra Gordon and Delta Force operators Carl Wilson and Nick Landry. Last time they teamed up was tracking rhino poachers slaughtering Africa's most endangered species, whose horns today are more valuable than gold. This time the stakes are even higher as a terrifying new front in the undeclared global terror war erupts. As chilling as today's headlines, Blood Brothers weaves fiction with reality in a white-knuckle tale of modern terrorism. Spence has written two other Chris Stone adventure novels, The Apocalypse Chase, and Bloodhorn, a thriller based on fact about the wildlife smuggling cartels driving rhinos to extinction. Spence's non-fiction books, including The Elephant Whisperer which he co-wrote with Lawrence Anthony — 'The Indiana Jones of Conservation' — have received widespread international claim.

Returning from a traumatic tour of duty in Syria, Delta Force warriors Kelly Murdoch and Carl Wilson get the assignment of their lives — infiltrating a surfing cult of Mexican drug runners. But these are not the usual narcos; hardscrabble criminals such as Pablo Escobar and El Chapo who fought and murdered their way to the top. This is the new generation known as el Hijos — the sons. Instead of emerging from ghetto barrios or peon hill farms, they are billionaire playboys born into a life of inconceivable luxury. They live for drugs, women, and in the case of the Cartel de Tijuana, surfing. Along the California border, the Hijos spread more terror than their fathers. With Alaskan adventurer Chris Stone, Kelly and Carl penetrate the world of the new narco 'royalty'. A world of unimaginable opulence and random cruelty, where a gangster 'brat pack' has an iron grip on America's increasingly violent and volatile border. The most powerful Hijo is Miguel Guerra, whose father is the jefe of the Cartel de Tijuana. To take him on, Carl and Kelly have to break into Miguel and his beautiful sister Teresa's inner circle. To do so, they not only have to fight in a cartel war, they have to go up against the most lethal group of gangsters in the Americas. This is the fourth saga in the Chris Stone series. As with the others, Spence blends fact and fiction in a blistering thriller that is frighteningly real and in tune with the times.