- Piracy, Oil industries, International relations, Hijacking of ships
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Wilbur Smith
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 385
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312567255
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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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