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The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun and extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she and Michael Courtney had shared - and sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster and adventure she must first brave all the combined terrors of war, shipwreck, thirst, fever and the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul ...

There are heroes and there are monsters. But most of us are ordinary mortals caught up in events too turbulent for any of us. Perhaps when the battle is over, all we will inherit are the ashes of a once beautiful land. It is 1952. Guided by the ruthless hands of Shasa Courtney and Centaine Malcomess, the Courtney family empire has come to dominate the lives of white and black South Africans alike. But the winds of change are fanning fires of revolution. In his deadly quest for power, Shasa will be tested far beyond the battle of the boardroom, forced to betray his ideals for a misguided dream of national unity. Rage is Wilbur Smith's impassioned account of post-war South Africa. It is also the work of a master storyteller at the zenith of his powers: an unforgettable blend of passion, power, history and intrigue.

Hazel Bannock és Hector Cross, akik immár mindketten a Bannock Olajtársaság tulajdonosai, nőgyógyászhoz mennek Londonba, mert Hazel gyereket vár. A hazafelé úton két fegyveres afrikai motoros üldözőbe veszi Hazel kocsiját, és megsebesíti őt. Hazel a kórházban belehal a sérüléseibe, de kislányát császármetszéssel világra segítik az orvosok. Amíg Hector Londonban tartózkodik, vidéki rezidenciáján tűz üt ki. A nyomokból arra lehet következtetni, hogy a gyújtogatás célja az lett volna, hogy Hector újszülött kislányát eltegyék láb alól. Hector és régi Cross Bow-s kollégái bosszút esküsznek. Az első számú gyanúsított a Tipoo Tip klán egyik utolsó életben maradt tagja. A nyomozás során váratlanul kiderül, hogy a gyilkos összefüggésbe hozható a klinikával. Hamarosan azonban lehull a lepel a Bannock család sötét dolgairól. Miért is ítélik el az egyik testvért, és ő hogyan épít ki egy egész bűnszervezetet a börtön évei alatt. Hogyan lesz egy bűnözőből Kongó királya és miniszter elnöke. Hector és csapata kideríti, hogy mi állt a gyilkosság hátterében és kegyetlen bosszút áll a kislánya életére törőkön.

Big King was at the shaft station when they heard the water coming. It sounded like an express train in a tunnel, a dull bellow of irresistible power. The water was pushing the air from the drive ahead of it, so that a hurricane of wind came roaring from the mouth of the drive, blowing out a cloud of dust and loose rubbish.' Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people -- for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself ...

Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain of glassy grey rose high above the raft, shielding it for a few seconds from the whip of the wind, its crest blowing off like the plume of an Etruscan helmet, before it slid down, collapsing upon itself in the tumbling roar of breaking water.' In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror ...

I scrambled onto my knees, pushing the automatic rifle forward to cover one flank. In that instant they opened on us. The air around me was torn by the sound of a thousand bull whips, while the gunfire sounded like a stick dragged swiftly across a corrugated-iron fence.' A hazy aerial photograph and a sinister curse are the only clues Dr Ben Kazin has before he stumbles on the archaeological discovery of a lifetime. Beneath the red cliffs of Botswanaland a magnificent unknown civilization has remained buried for millennia. But the magic of uncovering a lost culture is harshly interrupted by the violence of terrorists, love, intrigue and the breathtaking secrets of centuries ...

V době nelítostného konfliktu a v urputném boji muže proti muži se mladý Hal Courtney, syn statečného námořního kapitána, který s pověření krále přepadá kupecké lodě s kořením ocitá u afrických břehů i na africkém území mnohokrát tváří v tvář smrti. Jenže jeden pirátský kousek se nevyvede a otec se synem se dostávají do strašného zajetí. Halovi se podaří uprchnout, do Etiopie, kde potká krásnou Judith...

With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country's war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart ...

Zouga Ballantyne, jeho sestra doktorka Robyn a spolehlivý stopař Jan prožívají další dobrodružství v africké buši na území bývalé bájné říše vládce Monomatapy. Vrcholí válka, při které se bílí i černí obyvatelé Jižní Rhodesie marně snaží zastavit pos tup agresorů. Nedotknutelnost vlastního území bohužel obhájit nedokázali a zůstali celým západním svobodným světem.

Nick went head down, finning desperately to catch the swirling body which tumbled like a leaf in high wind. He had a fleeting glimpse of Baker's face, contorted with terror and lack of breath, the glass visor of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted through the non-return valve. The Chief's headset microphone squealed once and then went dead as the water shorted it out.' Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time and the elements ...

I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog's snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pup ils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner's blade of the dorsal fin'. Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seduc tive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck. "Wilbur Smith is one of the benchmark s against whom others are compared"

Nový román Šelma světově proslulého autora Wilbur Smithe. Během plavby v Indickém oceánu přepadnou somálští piráti jachtu ropné magnátky Hazel Bannockové a unesou její dceru Caylu. Požadují za ni astronomické výkupné. Hazel získá důkazy o krutém a n elidském týrání své dcery, a protože oficiální úřady jim pomoc odmítají, obrátí se na majitele bezpečnostní agentury Hectora Crosse. Spolu s ním bere spravedlnost do vlastních rukou

Píše se rok 1914 a Patrik O'Flynn žije svůj život naplno. Se svou dcerou a anglickým dobrodruhem Sebastianem se potlouká po řekách a džunglích německé východní Afriky. Vyžívá se v pokořování sadistického německého komisaře Fleischera, avšak na úsvitu války se úsměvné hrátky rychle změní v nenávist.

Sean Courtney je vášnivý a posedlý dobrodruh, který se vrací z divočiny jako boháč, o svůj majetek je však připraven a přichází také o svou milovanou dívku. Brzy zjišťuje, že konflikt jeho rodiny je horší, než jakákoli bitva v afrických stepích.

Sean Courtney je vášnivý a posedlý dobrodruh, který se vrací z divočiny jako boháč, o svůj majetek je však připraven a přichází také o svou milovanou dívku. Brzy zjišťuje, že konflikt jeho rodiny je horší, než jakákoli bitva v afrických stepích.

Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom. The pirates demand a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the civilized major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector Cross to help her rescue her daughter. Hector is the owner and operator of Cross Bow Security, the company which is contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. He is a formidable fighting man. Between them Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.