The Estate of John Ward

Literary Agent: Eugenie Furniss

John Ward’s planned retirement, after a successful career in hotels, was going to be relaxing in the Caribbean for six months and spending the rest of the year at his family home in Suffolk with his wife Jan. Then suddenly his and his family’s world was turned upside down, when his beautiful gentle daughter Julie, was brutally murdered whilst photographing wildlife in Kenya.John immediately flew to Kenya, and was faced with a wall of official obstruction. He pledged to find answers but what he uncovered was way beyond his and his family’s worst nightmares.
John’s manuscript is his inspirational story, in his own words. It is one man’s relentless pursuit of Justice for his beloved daughter, taking at times putting him in grave danger. He was forced to fight trusted institutions in two countries, who he believes, were trying to prevent him from finding her killer.

The story encompasses 35 years of obstruction, sadly, not only by the Kenyans, who years later admitted their part in a bombshell statement read out at the UK Inquest, but helped by the British Foreign Office, MI6 and The Met Police, who John believes, for political reasons, were all colluding with the Kenyan authorities. Was it all because the President's son was involved in Julie’s murder?

John’s odyssey led him all around the world, cost him millions of pounds and his retirement. It explores the murky world statecraft and is backed up with factual proof which John meticulously collated, creating a library of evidence from which basis the manuscript is written.