Cage of War - Kerri Reeks
A Thrilling Read!
ISBN: 978-0-6489862-9-4 - 354pp H-233mm x W-154mm -
After being captured in Vietnam in the late 1960s Australian soldier James ‘Ned’ Kelly is eventually rescued by US special forces, but they are part of a rogue CIA team involved in clandestine war tourism called ‘Tiger Hunts’. He is rehabilitated but forced to join them. Kelly doesn’t take long to realise things are very wrong at this jungle base, including the theft of foreign aid, drug trafficking, political assassinations and war crimes. Kelly is trapped in this ‘cage of war’ until a tiger hunt goes wrong, and Kelly is wounded, left for dead. Again, he is rescued and finally sent back home to Australia. Discharged from the army he settles down in the scenic Adelaide Hills but an explosive chain of murderous events threatens his life, family and friends. Can Ned ever be free of this ‘Cage of War’?
Kerri was born in Adelaide in 1953 and spent his early years in Broken Hill, Cockburn and Mt Gambier. He joined the Australian Army at 18 in 1972 and qualified as a Sapper in the Corps of Engineers training in combat engineering, earthmoving construction, minefield clearances, and demolition tasks, he did not however serve in Vietnam.
He has since been an award-winning landscaper, restaurant owner and for the past 30+ years he has travelled around the world to over 60 countries working in the oil and gas industry, where he completed a Graduate Diploma in Disaster Management and Graduate Certificate in Emergency Management. He currently lives in the Adelaide hills on his small acreage.
