Leon Courtney guides rich and powerful men from America and Europe on big game safaris in the territories of the Masai tribe. One of Leon's clients is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German industrialist whose company builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. Leon is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa to gather information from Von Meerbach. Instead Leon falls desperately in love with Von Meerbach's beautiful and enigmatic mistress, Eva Von Wellberg. Assegai delivers the fast-paced action and vivid history of Africa that Wilbur Smith's devoted fan base has come to expect from this master of historical novels.
Simon Vance does it all in Wilbur Smith's latest African adventure. Set in 1913, on the cusp of WWI, the story is filled with sexism, racism, and classism. Vance deftly becomes a Masai warrior; a powerful medicine woman; a German princess with a penchant for pain; a German industrialist hatching a conspiracy; and our hero, ex-soldier and great white hunter Leon Courtney. The first part of the novel is pure adventure--from Courtney's heroic rescue of his friend to his forays into hunting, including an exciting safari with Teddy Roosevelt. But elephants and lions are not the only game in town. Vance ramps up the tension as Germany's growing interest in East Africa becomes more dangerous, and Courtney must single-handedly foil a plot by disgruntled Boers. Great listening. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of WHEN THE LION FEEDS, and has since written nearly thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages. Wilbur Smith lives in London and continues to have an abiding concern for the peoples and wildlife of his native continent, an interest strongly reflected in his novels.
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