Mark Oakley Probert

(sting of) The Dragon's Tale Mark Oakley Probert

BCBC Bookclub Australia: 'Book Of the Year 2016' and debut novel from Mark Probert. Based on true events, this adult page turning romantic adventure novel follows Welsh surfer, Rhys Evans, who travels to Sri Lanka to escape the memory of his girlfriend's infidelity. When there, among other adventures, Rhys is attacked by wild dogs, avoids being eaten by crocodiles, endures jungle surgery without anaesthetic and is held at gunpoint by battle-hardened guerrillas. Then, as if this isn't enough, things get a whole lot worse when Rhys' girlfriend pursues him to rekindle their love and they are unwittingly drawn into Sri Lanka's corrupt and frightening underworld to face a thirty-year jail sentence at the Island's most notorious prison. An easy reading fast-paced adventure story about a young man's wild adventures in the tropics.