Across the cascading golden savannah of Africa, there lives a hard truth that the world chooses to ignore. Black market sales of animals and ivory run rampant while the controlling major crime syndicates operate unchecked in most regards. The billions of dollars that dictates this business force corruption throughout governments in every nation and even those who have publicly sworn to protect them. GAARD, the Global Agency for Animals Response and Defense is an internationally renowned organization that has battled for years against the cruelties imposed upon nature's finest across the globe. When one of the group's team leaders, former U.S. Ranger Tristan Collins receives a call from a trusted associate, he races to meet his team in Dar es Salaam in hopes of dismantling a largescale poaching operation run by the African warlord Bganda Celeceeki. Upon arrival though, he finds there are more powerful and unseen adversaries always several steps ahead of him and his team's mission. As the clues lead to a shocking revelation, GAARD fights to end the epidemic while discovering the truth as to how deep the governmental corruption truly goes. In his dazzling first novel, Robert Ushy navigates the reader through the illegal underworld of wildlife poaching and crime syndicates across Africa, into the thrones of the Asian black markets and right to the citadels of honor and power in London and Washington D.C.The Ivory Betrayal is a sleek thriller that stands in a class all alone, a new age page turner driven on the paths of espionage and intrigue. Ushy's spellbinding imagination, combined with humor and grasp of storytelling has enabled him to create a vivid world of riveting adventure that readers will recognize as a parallel step beyond reality.