Wilbur Smith books

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Assegai (2009)

Michener meets Clancy - or something. Lengthy historical epic with some espionage thrown in. An interesting look at gory safaris and the brutal killing of animals, attacks by hostile tribes, and the beginning of WWII. My first Wilbur Smith book in many years, and not a favorite at all. Too w...

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Il destino del cacciatore (2009)

As A wilbur Smith fan I really can't fault this book. It's a novel that follows another generation of the Courtney family. It has magnificent imagery of elephant hunts, lion hunts and buffalo hunts. The story start before WW1 when Leon Hunter becomes a big-game hunter and guides rich and power...

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Il dio del deserto (2014)

Wilber Smith is a master story teller. Building history into his tales of adventure is just one of the benefits of reading his books. I am a history buff, particularly that of Egyptian and Roman history, and I knew where this tale was headed as soon as I recognized the setting time period and th...

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Desert God (2014)

I received this Advance Reader's copy (ARC) through the Reading Room Early Review Program. I really enjoyed this book. Even though it was book 5 of the River God series, it felt like a stand-alone.First time reading this author, Wilbur Smith, according to Stephen King, is the best Historical nove...

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When the Lion Feeds (2006)

Reading this Wilbur Smith novel, three decades after I read the last one, The Dark of the Sun, I quickly realized how far I have strayed from reading popular fiction: like hero Sean Courtney, once you leave home, you can never come back.This book is still a page turner despite its age. Short chap...

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Men of Men (2006)

The second book in Smith's Ballantyne series, and a follow up to A FALCON FLIES. This book carries on in the first one's wake, taking up the story of Zouga Ballantyne as he tries his luck in the new-fashioned Kimberley Mines under the beady eye of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes.MEN OF MEN is a novel...

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The Angels Weep (2006)

What a way to end the year! This is an absolutely blistering read and, I would say, the best Wilbur Smith novel I've read yet, and I've already encountered plenty of exceptional books from this author. THE ANGELS WEEP is the third in the Ballantyne series, following on from A FALCON FLIES and MEN...

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Birds of Prey (2003)

Rating: 3* of fiveWilbur, Wilbur...yours isn't the stuff of literary legend, but usually you buckle a *mean* swash and cause images of Erroll Flynn to dash around your reader's head (thanks for that, BTW).In this book, Wilbur, you lost your way. I don't expect autheticity of language, and don't e...

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Shout at the Devil (2006)

Shout at the Devil is my second Wilbur Smith read after Eagle in the Sky and an early outing for the author. Surprise, surprise, it’s an expertly written action-adventure yarn set in Africa, in which the sights and sounds of the fetid, boggy terrain are brought to life with sweeps of the great au...

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Sound of Thunder (2015)

The follow-up to Smith's first book, WHEN THE LION FEEDS, is a continuation of the same story following the cliffhanger that the first novel ended upon.We learn more about Sean Courtney's life at Ladyburgh, his experiences in the 2nd Boer War and finally the next Courtney generation, i.e. his chi...

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The Seventh Scroll (1996)

The seventh scroll is sequel to "River God", which is one of the best historical fiction I have read lately. The seventh scroll follows two archeologist who are in search of the Pharaoh's tomb. It is a very good story and it is something new. Wilbur Smith brings a new concept though this book and...

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Hungry as the Sea (2000)

I'll read anything that has storms and ocean-going salvage tugs. This book has both, in addition to a vendetta, corporate and individual malfeasance, and romantic rivalry. The parts of the book dealing with those latter elements are the weakest. But Smith writes really well about ships during ...

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The Quest (2007)

Appalling.Meet Taita, the lead character: writer, sculptor, painter, architect, engineer, surgeon, strategist, politician, warrior, athlete, historian, geographer, philosopher, mystic, philologist, adventurer, musician, chess player, veterinarian, actor, utterly handsome and wise beyond measure. ...

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The Burning Shore (2007)

The beginning of a new Courtney saga, following on from the WHEN THE LION FEEDS trilogy. I found THE BURNING SHORE a bit of a slog to read, perhaps because Smith's previous novel, THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS, was an absolutely triumphant book and one of my favourite reads of all time; this one ...

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Vicious Circle

When one of them fell she was whipped to her feet and urged onwards. When she was finally unable to rise, her burden was shared out amongst the others in the column, who were already nearing their breaking points. Then she was shot and her body left beside the track as an ...

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Sunbird

Some of these were crudely cut and incorporated in gold jewellery, thick clumsy pieces, collars, brooches, necklaces and rings.Louren hurried on down the aisle, and then stopped abruptly. In another recess that led off the main chamber, behind another iron gate, the gold was stacked in neat piles...

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A Falcon Flies (2014)

They fell swiftly behind him as he climbed the pathway in the night, months of hard hunting had toned him to the peak of physical condition and he ran at the hill. She had not been able to warn him. What words were there to describe the creature in the cave on the hilltop....

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Golden Lion

Many had therefore brought canteens of water, assorted items of food to keep hunger at bay and even the odd tot of rum. One group of half-a-dozen tars, who established a little camp in front of the covered enclosure, had arrived with a regular feast of ship’s provisions, freshly bought produce an...

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The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

Now when it reached the escarpment of the Zambezi valley, it broke up into eddies and backlashes amongst the hills and the broken ground of the rim. The bull elephant stood just below the crest of one of the hills, much too canny to silhouette himself on the skyline. His b...

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Those in Peril (Unlocked)

She had strapped it to the skin between her breasts with a strip of adhesive tape so that, even when she was running, parachuting and training with the men she could reach it before it rang twice. At night she kept it under her pillow and often woke to find she was holding it in her hand. It was ...

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Rage (2011)

They had never forgiven him for changing parties. So he was on his mettle as he rose to his feet and sought the Speaker’s recognition, and then instinctively glanced up at the galleries. Centaine was in the middle of the front row of the visitors’ gallery. She was always there when she knew that ...

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Wilbur Smith's Smashing Thrillers

His rangers squatted on the deck below the gunwale and huddled into their greatcoats, for it was cold out on the water with the wind of their passage accentuating the chill of the river mist. The outboard motor was running rough and cutting out intermittently. Twice Isaac ...

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The Sound of Thunder

“Where are the officers?”” “Back, you men,” were spreading along the English line. He had planted the gerni of defeat among them, now he must spread it through them before he could carry the entire position. Frantically he signalled for reinforcements from the Boer positions along the crest, hund...

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