About the Book
When, during the 2007 Lebanon conflict, a stray terrorists' rocket killed his mother, twelve-year-old Jabir Sarkis vowed he'd join the army and fight terrorism.
But fate had other ideas. Later, while attending university, events occur in Australia that will shape the rest of his life: the murder of an Israeli dignitary, the prime minister's assassination, a $M20 bounty and the lure of a permanent visa.
When Jabir identifies the assassin, his reward is a new life in Australia. But Australia is only half a world away, well within the reach of Hezbollah's tentacles. Barely settled in Sydney, Jabir's girlfriend, Rihana is kidnapped in Beirut. And that is just the start as his new life, the one he'd always longed for, spirals out of control.
As Hezbollah torments him vicariously through Rihana and closes in, in Sydney, the hunt is on. The new Australian PM has his back, and so does an agent of Israel's Mossad, but will the assassin get there first?
Bounty takes you on a gripping ride from a poverty-blighted, terrorist infected corner of Lebanon, to the streets of Beirut, to Tehran, to Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv, to the halls of power in Canberra, and finally to its thrilling climax in Sydney.
About the Author :
Darryl was educated on Queensland’s Gold Coast but cut short his education and at the age of 15 he left school to work on a milk run. He later worked as a window cleaner, cocktail barman, wine waiter, clerk, car salesman and a guitarist/backing singer in a rather hopeless rock band. Eventually, he got his act together, studied Law and at 28 owned his own law firm in Queensland’s far north. After nine years in the tropics, he sold up and moved with his family to London. He practised there for twenty years specialising in commercial litigation, mostly at partner level in the City. In 2004 he returned to Queensland and now lives with his daughter in the Gold Coast hinterland.
Darryl has been a writer for as long as he can remember. He has had a respectable number of paid articles published in British and international magazines. In 2009 he self-published his novel The Election, a political thriller. In 2012 he secured a publishing contract with Morris Publishing Australia for his second novel, Calvus, an historical thriller. With the demise of that publisher, Darryl signed with Custom Book Publications for the publication of three of his novels. Agnus Dei, a legal thriller published in February 2014, Sleeping With Angels, another legal thriller, in November 2014 and A Dragon In The Snow in October 2015. In July 2019, Darryl self-published Bounty, a political thriller, and, as a departure from writing novels, he published his memoir, …Passing Through… in 2020.
Apart from writing, Darryl enjoys walking, travel, cinema and, of course, reading thrillers.
Review :
Bounty is a work of dramatic thriller fiction penned by author Darryl Greer. Spanning the globe in this political terrorist thriller, our central hero begins life as a little boy, Jabir Sarkis. At twelve years old, Jabir witnesses the horrors of the Middle East conflict of 2007, when his mother is killed in Lebanon. Vowing to fight against the terrorists who ended her life, Jabir grows in power and passion to do good deeds. But as his deeds begin to get noticed, Jabir’s new life in Australia is threatened by the very terrorists he’s trying to destroy. When they kidnap his girlfriend, Jabir begins a terrifying trial to get her back and have the life he’s worked so hard for restored to him; There should be more thriller books like Bounty. I think it’s wonderful, culturally speaking, to see an anti-terrorism novel with a non-white, non-American hero, adding a huge deal of authenticity and personal motivation to the tale. Author Darryl Greer creates an empathetic and powerful hero in Jabir Sarkis, spurred by the past he’s had to endure but always determined for the future. The different locations of Australia and the Middle East bring life to the tale as genuinely terrifying events occur. The political aspects of the story are well handled, without overshadowing the personal drama that Jabir is going through. I also really enjoyed the dialogue, which was direct and not overly-technical. Overall, Bounty is a thriller novel that any reader can access and enjoy, portraying a true hero at work;Reviewed by K. C. Finn for Readers’ Favorite.
