โ S J MacDonald
๐ Fiction
๐
2018
๐ English
โ 320 KB
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
Assegai
โ Scribed by Wilbur Smith
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Macmillan Audio
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ 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,...
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