DOVES OF STEEL By Colin R Clarke

From best-selling, internationally published New Zealand author Colin Clarke, comes a well-researched, fast-moving historical novel set in Patagonia and the slums of Buenos Aires.

Reviews on Colin's previous books:

 ‘Colin Clarke holds his own with many of the internationally recognised writers’ - NZ Herald

‘Clarke has fashioned a work of some integrity’ - NZ Listener

 ‘All the expertise of a master writer’ – HB Herald Tribune

‘More solid than an Alistair McLean yarn’ – The Echo, UK

‘This is a minor masterpiece’ – Saturday Evening Mercury, Hobart

SYNOPSIS

Patagonia, the vast wilderness of legend, becomes the centre of conflict for four men. Set in the period of the 1880’s to the 1930’s, DOVES OF STEEL follows the lives of Frank Burnley, a sheep farmer; Jose Mendez, a powerful industrialist; Simon Goldwitz, a Russian Jewish anarchist, and Felipe Martin, a corrupted police inspector; and the women who made them what they are.

Each has his own ambitions. Each has his own agenda. Inexorably drawn together by love, conflict and violence, the events that rage around them alter the course of their lives and that of the country they seek to build in their own image.  Intertwined by their political beliefs the protagonists fight for power and revenge.

From the theft of the Tehuelche Indian’s traditional lands, to the plotting of the overthrow of the government by a charismatic anarchist and the determination of the scion of an ancient Argentine family to crush any dissent that threatens his business empire, Doves of Steel is a well researched, fast-moving, historical novel filled with fascinating characters and with an ending that won’t be picked by the reader.

  

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Colin Clarke is an internationally published New Zealand author, whose previous novels have sold 20,000-60,000 copies apiece and have been translated into Finnish, German, Japanese and Danish. Widely travelled, Colin has a strong appreciation of the countries and regions in which his books have been based.  These include Europe, America  and East Asia. Having studied history and political science at Victoria University of Wellington, Colin’s writings have shown an acute sense of understanding the political climate of the time and the countries in which the novels are set while at the same time skilfully weaving the characters into the drama of the story.

His previous novels include Clash by Night, The Rat Box, K605 and The Rasputin Letter.

Publisher -  
    The Write Way Publishing        (distributed in NZ by Paul Greenberg)  - rrp $39.99