Résultats de "Wilbur Smith" dans Toutes les catégories

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

Dal maestro della narrativa d'avventura, un romanzo appassionante sul destino e la brutalità della natura umana. Un'eredità rubata. Un amore proibito. Una sete di vendetta così bruciante che potrebbe distruggere ogni cosa. Figlio di un influente proprietario terriero della Virginia, Mungo St John ha sempre dato per scontati la ricchezza e il lusso in cui è vissuto grazie ai privilegi di cui godeva la sua famiglia. Finché non riceve la notizia che il padre è morto.

1754. Nati e cresciuti a Madras, Theo Courtney e sua sorella Connie sono sempre stati inseparabili, ma la tragica morte dei genitori li separa bruscamente. Theo, tormentato dai sensi di colpa, cerca il riscatto arruolandosi nell'esercito britannico e combattendo nella Guerra franco - indiana. Connie, convinta di essere stata abbandonata dal fratello, dopo aver subito ogni sorta di abusi e angherie da chi avrebbe dovuto proteggerla, riesce infine a fuggire in Francia e a farsi accettare nell'alta società parigina.

Jack and his friends, Amelia and Xander, are in Zanzibar diving for lost treasure to support Jack's mother's coral protection project. Going further than usual on their last day, their dive boat is lured into a trap and captured by Somali pirates. Determined that his mother shouldn't pay a ransom for their release, Jack won't give up his attempts to escape. Transferred to a militia training camp for boy soldiers, the trio's only hope is the resourceful Somali boy called Mo who befriends them.

In this third high-octane instalment, Jack and his friends are skiing in the Alps when Jack is engulfed by an avalanche.

1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army. Connie, believing herself abandoned by her brother, and abused and brutalised by a series of corrupt guardians, makes her way to France, where she is welcomed into high society.

Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom....

In Gold Mine, an exciting adventure from Wilbur Smith, ambitious and hard-living mining expert Rod Ironsides knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of a dangerous plan which includes the destruction of the very mine itself....

Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that roam the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men....

The hijacking of a jumbo jet off the Seychelles galvanises antiterrorist chief Peter Stride into the action for which he has spent a lifetime training. But even in the hail of bullets which follows, he knows that this is only the beginning of a nightmare. Stride is the one man who might find the twisted genius who holds the world hostage - if only his every move were not anticipated by the enemy....

Dr Daniel Armstrong, ecologist and documentary maker, has dedicated his life to protecting Africa's animals and rain forests. But when a gang of poachers murders his childhood friend, Chief Warden of the National Park, and steals the government-protected ivory stores, Daniel's quest of passion becomes one of revenge....

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror....

Wilbur Smith er i storform og genoptager fortællingen om familien Courtney idenne episke roman fyldt med drama, spænding,heltemod og kærlighed. Denmodige Saffron Courtney er datter af den fremtrædende forretningsmand og krigsveteran, Leon Courtney, som opdrager hende alene i det koloniserede Kenya. Som Saffron vokser op, vokser også hendes lyst efter viden og eventyr. Hun rejser derfor til England, hvor hun uundgåeligt indblandes i dramatiske begivenheder, der leder op til Anden Verdenskrig.

En del af "Egypten-serien". I den gamle egyptiske by Theben samles faraos trofaste undersåtter for at hylde ham under Osiris-festivalen. Den kloge og synske eunuk, Taita, ser ham dog kun som et symbol på rigets forfald. Taita er slave for Lord Intefs datter Lostris. Lostris er forelsket i den unge officer Tanus, men deres drøm om en fælles fremtid bliver knust, da Lord Intef nægter at lade dem få hinanden. I stedet gifter han Lostris bort til kongen, den gamle, impotente farao, og Tanus bliver udvist til ørkenen.

One of the most formidable fighters in the world, ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross has survived explosive tangles with depraved enemies - warlords, pirates, and arms dealers - from the Middle East to the heart of Africa. Now Cross must take the law into his own hands once again to stop a vengeful old enemy who has resurfaced - and hunt down a deadly new nemesis in pursuit of global domination.

I denne spændende og eventyrlige roman rejser faraoen Tamoses højre hånd, Taita, til Kreta via Babylon. Han skal forhandle ægteskab mellem faraoens datter og den store Minos i et forsøg på at underminere fjenden og stjæle hans allierede. Men ikke alt går som forventet. "Ørkenguden" er en selvstændig fortsættelse til romanerne "Flodguden", "Den syvende skriftrulle", "Magiens mester" og "Den 11. plage".

Taita, læge og magiker, har levet i mange år som eneboer i ørkenen. Men en dag bliver han kaldt til faraos hof og befinder sig pludselig i en frygtelig konflikt. Onde kræfter vil tilrane sig Egyptens trone og myrde den unge prins Nefer, der er sønnesøn af den afdøde dronning Lostris, som Taita elskede. Taita må bruge alle sine evner for at redde prinsen fra en frygtelig skæbne. Men kærlighed og magi overvinder meget.

Efter en række katastrofale plager bliver Egypten ramt af den ultimative tragedie: Nilen tørrer ud! Farao sender bud efter magiens mester, den tidligere slave Taita. Han befaler ham at tage sydpå til det uudforskede afrikanske kontinent, hvor floden udspringer og grusomme farer lurer. "Den 11. plage" er en selvstændig fortsættelse til romanerne "Flodguden", "Den syvende skriftrulle" og "Magiens mester".

Taita, læge og magiker, har levet i mange år som eneboer i ørkenen. Men en dag bliver han kaldt til faraos hof og befinder sig pludselig i en frygtelig konflikt. Onde kræfter vil tilrane sig Egyptens trone og myrde den unge prins Nefer, der er sønnesøn af den afdøde dronning Lostris, som Taita elskede. Taita må bruge alle sine evner for at redde prinsen fra en frygtelig skæbne. Men kærlighed og magi overvinder meget.

Efter en række katastrofale plager bliver Egypten ramt af den ultimative tragedie: Nilen tørrer ud! Farao sender bud efter magiens mester, den tidligere slave Taita. Han befaler ham at tage sydpå til det uudforskede afrikanske kontinent, hvor floden udspringer og grusomme farer lurer. "Den 11. plage" er en selvstændig fortsættelse til romanerne "Flodguden", "Den syvende skriftrulle" og "Magiens mester".