Sound of Thunder

✍ Scribed by Smith, W

• Book ID: 109267273
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 313 KB
• Series: Courtneys 2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Review

*Praise for The Sound of Thunder *

"A violent saga-type story set on Boer War South Africa and told with vigour and enthusiasm, the author of When the Lion Feeds spins a fine tale."– Evening Standard

"A highly readable novel of history and adventure ... Wilbur Smith has a sense of character too." – Books and Bookmen

"An extravagant and vigorous novel ... its many pages provide constantly changing incidents and a gallery of memorable portraits." – Liverpool Daily Post

"The pace would do credit to a Porsche, and the invention is as bright and explosive as a fireworks display." – Sunday Telegraph

** Praise for Wilbur Smith**

“Smith is a master.” — _Publishers Weekly
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“One of the world’s most popular adventure writers.” — The Washington Post Book World

“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)

"Best Historical Novelist--I say Wilbur Smith, with his swashbuckling novels of Africa. The bodices of rip and the blood flows. You can get lost in Wilbur Smith and misplace all of August."--_Stephen King
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"Action is Wilur Smith's game, and he is a master."--The Washington Post Book World

“The world’s leading adventure writer.” — Daily Express (UK)

"Wilbur Smith rarely misses a trick."--Sunday Times

“Smith is a captivating storyteller.” — The Orlando Sentinel

“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

Product Description

Another Courtneys of Africa novel from the worldwide bestselling master storyteller and sequel to When the Lion Feeds.

‘Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own – and now, again, they were pitted against each other...

Sean Courtney, impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds returns from the wildnerness a rich man – until he is robbed by the Boers of his wagons, his gold and the girl he loves. A grim homecoming finds his country in the cruel grip of war. But in the bloody days ahead, conflicts within his family will prove far more bitter than any fought on the veld...