Power of the Sword - Brossura

Smith, Wilbur A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312940815 ISBN 13: 9780312940812

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Caught in the tumult of South Africa's history during the two decades before World War II, half-brothers Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney find themselves adversaries in a war of savagery. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Wilbur Smith is the bestselling author of many novels, each meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His bestselling Courtney series includes Assegai, The Sound of Thunder, Birds of Prey, Monsoon, and Blue Horizon. His other books include Those in Peril, River God, Warlock, The Seventh Scroll, and The Sunbird. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages and have sold over 120 million copies. Smith was born to a British family in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in Central Africa, and attended Rhodes University in South Africa. He has homes in Cape Town, London, Switzerland and Malta.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

In an epic that stretches from the end of one world to the next, New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith chronicles the fate of a warring family—and a continent at war with itself...

BETWEEN THE HUNTER AND THE PREY,

Sasha Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Sasha's brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter—of lions, and of men.

THE VICTIM AND THE SURVIVOR.

As the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Sasha, a man in tune with his continent and its people; Manfred who, like his father, was willing to shape his world with a gun. So when the winds of World War II reached Africa, each brother chose a side...

IS A SAGA OF BETRAYAL, VIOLENCE, AND TREASURE...

Now, the future of a young nation is being forged amidst a clash of civilizations, ideals, and blood feuds. And as Sasha and Manfred rise to power, a land of beauty and suffering will be remade—for better or for worse—in an image of their own.

"You can get lost in Wilbur Smith...with his swashbuckling novels of Africa."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

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• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312940815
• ISBN 13: 9780312940812
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 871