Assegai
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,…
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- Full title :Assegai / Wilbur Smith.
Summary
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 Kaiserś burgeoning army. While spying, Leon falls desperately in love with von Meerbachś beautiful and enigmatic mistress, Eva von Wellberg. On the eve of the World War, Leon stumbles on a plot by Count von Meerbach that could wipe out the British forces in Africa. He finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbachś plan, and in grave peril as he learns more about the enigmatic Eva.
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- Publication Date:2005.
- Edition:1st U.S. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
Notes
"First published in Great Britain by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan UK"--Title page verso
"A Thomas Dunne book."
Maps on end papers.
The Physical Object
- Description:472 pages ; : 25 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780312567248, 0312567243
- oclc:ocn780030270
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