Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 9781785769504 |
ISBN-13 | 9781785769504 |
No of pages | 448 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | zaffre |
Published Date | 30 Apr 2021 |
Wilbur Smith is a global phenomenon: a distinguished author with a large and established readership built up over fifty-five years of writing with sales of over 120 million novels worldwide. Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published over thirty novels, including the Courtney series, the Ballantyne series, the Egyptian series, the Hector Cross series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide.
His books have now been translated into twenty-six languages. The establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
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The long-awaited sequel to Wilbur Smith's worldwide bestseller, The triumph of the sun. An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The triumph of the sun. Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Pernod Ballantyne and his fiancé, Amber benbrook, stroll hand in hand.
The future is theirs for the taking. But when penrod's jealous former lover, lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the W ills of abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, W here they are welcomed by menelik, the king of kings. Back in Cairo, a devastated penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens.
He is rescued by an old friend, who is now in the Italian Army, and offered the chance to join the military efforts. Italy has designs on abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade... With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can penrod and Amber find their W AY back to one another - against all the odds?.