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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

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.

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.

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"

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 ...

This is an another outstanding adventure from one of the world's best loved storytellers. Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates and her nineteen year old daughter Cayla kidnapped. Major Hector Cross is an ex-SAS operative and the man behind Cross Bow Security, the company contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. His loyalty to the Bannock family goes beyond the call of duty. The pirates demand a crippling ransom for Cayla's release, and complicated political and diplomatic sensitivities render the major powers incapable of intervening. With growing evidence of the horrific torture to which Cayla is being subjected, Hazel calls on Hector to help her rescue her daughter. Between them, Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.

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...

The jet was a solid eighteen-inch column, a pillar of brown mud and yellow gravel and sea water that beat against the steel plates of the hull with a hollow drumming roar. In the few seconds since the explosion the cyclone was already half-filled with a slimy shifting porridge that rushed from wall to wall with the movement of the ship. It was like some monstrous jellyfish which each second gathered weight and strength.' The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, his sister Tracey and their estranged foster-brother Johnny Lance turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' is the old man's implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for Johnny, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal and Johnny is plunged into a maelstrom of greed, vengeance and murder ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto V

Po odchodu z armády se Leon Courtney stane v Africe profesionálním lovcem divoké zvěře. Když nevyzpytatelnou divočinou provází německého velkoprůmyslníka, jehož továrny vyrábějí letouny pro armádu německého císaře, odhalí nekalé plány na oslabení bri tských sil. Leon dělá všechno, aby uhasil jiskru doutnajícího konfliktu, ale neohrozí ho skrytá tajemství nepřítelovy svůdné milenky?