Assegai.

WILBUR SMITH

Publication: Macmillan, 2009, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. The year is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. Leon had not bargained for falling in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of WWI, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the unhappy survivors of the Boer War, but it's only when Eva and von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

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