- Africa, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, historical, general, Courtney family (fictitious characters), fiction
By 1913, Leon Courtney has become a big game hunter in British East Africa. One of his clients is a German industrialist and military weapons manufacturer. From Von Meerbach's mistress, Leon learns about a conspiracy that would unite part of the Kaiser's army with the survivors of the Boer War against British forces in Africa.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
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About the book
- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 484
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Paperbacks, AudioGo, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780330452472
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Wilbur Addison Smith was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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