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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Signed
- No
- ISBN
- 9780312567248
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312567243
ISBN-13
9780312567248
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71133553
Product Key Features
Book Title
Assegai
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage, Sagas, Action & Adventure, Historical
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Courtney Family Adventures Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Best historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith." -Stephen King "Smith is a master." - Publishers Weekly "One of the world's most popular adventure writers." - The Washington Post Book World "Smith is a captivating storyteller." - The Orlando Sentinel "A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship." - Tulsa World "Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared" - The Times (UK) "No one does adventure quite like Smith." - Daily Mirror (UK) " 'A thundering good' read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books" - The Irish Times "The world's leading adventure writer." - The Daily Express (UK), "Best historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith." -Stephen King "Smith is a master." - Publishers Weekly "One of the world's most popular adventure writers." - The Washington Post Book World "Smith is a captivating storyteller." - The Orlando Sentinel "A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship." - Tulsa World "Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared" - The Times (UK) "No one does adventure quite like Smith." - Daily Mirror (UK) " 'A thundering good' read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books" - The Irish Times "The world's leading adventure writer." - The Daily Express (UK), "Best historical novelist: I say Wilbur Smith." -Stephen King"Smith is a master." -Publishers Weekly"One of the world's most popular adventure writers." -The Washington Post Book World"Smith is a captivating storyteller." -The Orlando Sentinel"A rare author who wields a razor-sharp sword of craftsmanship." -TulsaWorld"Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared" -The Times(UK)"No one does adventure quite like Smith." -Daily Mirror(UK)" 'A thundering good' read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books" -The Irish Times"The world's leading adventure writer." -The Daily Express(UK), The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but that's only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leon's target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesn't count on falling in love with the target's seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbach's plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre. Smith's novels of the Courtney and Ballantyne families (in 2005, he brought the two sagas together in The Triumph of the Sun) have been entertaining readers for nearly five decades, and if this novel is any indication, he is showing no signs of slowing down., The highly popular historical novelist returns with another guaranteed best-seller. In the early 1900s, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney decides to hang up his military career after a near-fatal mission in British East Africa (and a subsequent court-martial proceeding instigated by a vindictive superior office). He takes up big-game hunting, but that's only his cover: in reality, he is working as a spy, gathering intelligence for his uncle Penrod Ballantyne. Leon's target is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German weapons manufacturer (the novel is set only a handful of years before World War I), but Leon doesn't count on falling in love with the target's seductive mistress, Eva. Can Leon foil Von Meerbach's plot to foment an African rebellion and, at the same time, protect the beautiful Eva? There is a reason Smith is a hugely popular writer of historical novels: his remarkable talent for re-creating historical periods and crafting characters we care about is virtually unmatched in the genre
Dewey Decimal
823.914
Synopsis
Wilbur Smith has won acclaim worldwide as the master of the historical novel. Now, in Assegai he takes readers on an unforgettable African adventure set against the gathering clouds of war. It is 1913 and Leon Courtney, an ex-soldier turned professional hunter in British East Africa, guides the rich and powerful from America and Europe on big-game safaris. Leon had never sought fame, but an expedition alongside U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt has made him one of the most sought-after hunters on the continent. Soon, he finds that with celebrity comes not just wealth-but also danger. Leon is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients: Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist whose company builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. While spying, Leon falls desperately in love with von Meerbach's beautiful and enigmatic mistress, Eva von Wellberg. On the eve of the World War, Leon stumbles on a plot by Count von Meerbach that could wipe out the British forces in Africa. He finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan, and in grave peril as he learns more about the enigmatic Eva. Set amidst the tensions that will spark a war across continents, Assegai delivers the fast-paced action and vivid history that has made Wilbur Smith an internationally bestselling author., The eagerly awaited sequel to Smith's thrilling Egyptian series, "Assegai"--set in 1913 British East Africa--is a stunning, heart-pounding, journey into the lost world of the Pharaohs., A stunning, heart-pounding, journey into the lost world of the Pharaohs. Wilbur Smith has earned international acclaim for his bestselling RiverGod, The Seventh Scroll, and Warlock. Now, the unrivalled master of adventure returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series with his most fantastic story yet.The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt has been struck by a series of terrible plagues, killing its crops and crippling its people. Then the ultimate disaster befalls the kingdom. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa, from where the mighty river springs. In desperation the Pharaoh sends Taita, the only man who might be able to find his way through the hazardous territory to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. But not even Taita can have any idea of what a terrible enemy waits in ambush in those dark lands at the end of their world. No other author can conjure up the violence and mystery of Ancient Egypt like Wilbur Smith. The Questmarks his stirring return to the acclaimed series and proves once again why fans such as Stephen King praise him as the world's "best historical novelist."
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