A YORK archaeologist has written a thriller based in the sub-Saharan area of Africa where he lived and worked for several years.
Nick Pearson said he began writing 'The Kalahari Ferrari' while he was carrying out major archaeological excavation and survey work in South Africa, Botswana and Uganda in the early to mid 1990s.
Nick, a director of On Site Archaeology, based in Milton Street, continued writing it after returning to York and completed it by about 2000.
He then began a lengthy search for a publisher which ended when York-based Methuen accepted it for publication last year.
Writing under the pen name Nick Dillon, the debut novel focuses on a British engineer who witnesses a diamond heist and is then pursued across Africa by the perpetrator in a thrilling and deadly chase which takes in some of Africa's best known locations.
*The novel is available in paperback for £9.99 from Amazon.
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