“wilbur smith”

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, two forebooting adventures -- 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 poacher... More

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 to... More

Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that... More

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer him the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. `Destroy Johnny' is the old man's implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for ... More

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 log culture ... More

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 b... More

Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, now makes an honest living as a charter skipper fishing in the magnificent Indian Ocean. Until suddenly men from a world he has put behind him plunge once more into a deadly game. And he must play -- for an unknown prize against undeclared odds -- by the ... More

Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishmen with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventures come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery rep... More