Defend the Sunrise  By Trip Mackintosh

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Defend the Sunrise

Trip Mackintosh

Far from the glamour of Zambia’s tourist lodges, game rangers battle to protect Africa’s most endangered species. Not yet twenty, Charity joined their ranks—sharp, fearless, and uncompromising. Early in her career, she courageously interrupted a multi-million dollar wildlife trafficking ring.

Decades later, she was murdered.

Her daughter finds a journal—pages filled with names, locations, and suspicions. As she follows the trail her mother began, she stumbles into the crosshairs of the same cartel Charity once exposed. The past begins to stir, long-buried secrets rise up, and a dangerous legacy reveals itself.

What follows is a deadly game of cat and mouse on a continent where justice is fragile and silence has a price.

Inspired by true events, this pulse-pounding thriller explores the burden of integrity, the power of legacy, and one woman’s fight to bring from the shadows the true cost of wildlife trafficking.

About Author

Trip Mackintosh

Trip Mackintosh has loved the people and places of Africa since his service as a Peace Corps volunteer (1979–81). Following an international legal career, he turned his passion to telling stories of Africa that needed to be heard. He is now an award-winning author of several novels set on the continent. His first, Rebuke the Wind, is a tribute to the courageous, ordinary people of the Sahel who confront Boko Haram, the world’s largest terrorist organization. He takes readers to a place too dangerous to visit, portraying with compassion the innocent lives impacted by the terrorists’ violent ideology. His second book, Rebuild the Moon (Pegasus 2023), is a compelling story of redemption and forgiveness set in the Kalahari. The novel is a metaphor for racial relations in sub-Saharan Africa, telling the story of an aged South African seeking absolution for having persecuted San Bushmen.