Donovan Hoult

Donovan Hoult has experienced it all - journalism - a front-row seat to the drive for power and position by politicians - and business - a lifetime of experience in exploration and mining and finance - a witness to the relentless pursuit of money with all the greed and avarice laid bare, which only first hand knowledge can relate to with authority.

He has travelled the world and seen first-hand the mining wealth discoveries of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, U.S.A, U.K. and Iran - huge fortunes won on the pursuit of a single ambition to reveal earth's concealed riches. From a huge tapestry he has picked various scenes, characters and occurrences and woven obscure threads of observed experience into his narrative. His first three novels comprise a trilogy - Eye of the Rainbow Serpent, Cliffs of Ochre and Tyranny of Fortune - the events of a mixed-ethnicity girl who rises from poverty and rejection in the harsh outback of Western Australia to establish an international career before returning to her roots. Hunted is the Prey is a divergence into the savage lust for money and power which inevitably overrides the morals and scruples of those who seek it.