In this brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, comes an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of the French and Indian War. 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. Here, she once again finds herself at the mercy of vicious men, whose appetite for war and glory lead her to the frontlines of the French battlefield in North America. As the siblings find their destinies converging once more, they realise that the vengeance and redemption they both desperately seek could cost them their lives . . . Now available as a full and unabridged audiobook edition.

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Ghost Fire

BOOK 17 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror BETRAYED BY BLOOD. BOUND BY FATE. Inseparable since birth, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, seeks salvation in combat, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army. On a personal mission he meets the beautiful, innocent Abigail, with whom he falls madly in love. But when their tryst is discovered, Theo is left outcast in the wilderness, desperately fighting for his life. Determined to reclaim his honour and save Abigail, Theo does whatever it takes to survive. 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. Here, she once again finds herself at the mercy of vicious men, whose appetite for war and glory lead her to the frontlines of the French battlefield in North America. As the siblings find their destinies converging once more, they realise that the vengeance and redemption they both desperately seek could cost them their lives . . . A Courtney Series adventure - Book 2 in the Tiger's Prey sequence. Ghost Fire is an epic historical fiction adventure of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of war, from Wilbur Smith, one of the best and most beloved authors of the century. Don't miss the next thrilling chapter in the sequence, Storm Tide. Book 18 in the Courtney family series, Legacy of War, is available now. 'Ghost Fire' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/e 08-09-2019.

A FIGHT FOR HONOUR. A QUEST FOR REVENGE. Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He joins Napoleon's army and is taken to Egypt, but with the world at war and traitors in every corner, just how far will Paul go to ensure his own survival? Cape Town, 1806. Adam Courtney has spent his life in service to the navy and in the shadow of his father, the illustrious Admiral Robert Courtney. But when he returns home to Nativity Bay to find the homestead destroyed and the Courtney family murdered, Adam must accept his destiny and seek vengeance. Robert gives Adam the prized family heirloom, the Neptune sword, and makes his son swear on its blade that he will not rest until he has delivered justice. From Cape Town to Calcutta, on a quest for his family's honour, Adam discovers that the enemy he seeks may be closer to him than he realises . . . BOOK 20 IN THE LONG-RUNNING EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY FROM WILBUR SMITH. DON'T MISS THE NEXT BOOK IN THE COURTNEY SERIES, WARRIOR KING. AVAILABLE NOW.

Nemesis

This unputdownable Amazonian adventure is perfect for fans of The Lost City of Z. 'The thinking person's Dan Brown' Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the adventure of a lifetime. But things are not what they seem. Paramilitaries, drug cartels, and wildcat prospectors all want what the jungle has to offer - while untamed local tribes will fight desperately to protect their way of life. Maps of the region have been doctored. And what exactly happened to the previous expedition, a government vaccination program that went upriver and never returned? Soon finding the lost city is the least of their troubles. The jungle hides deadly secrets that must be hidden at all costs. And someone in the group wants to make sure they never get out. (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton

Black River

I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history. Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself. And then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job, her marriage, and her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police, and not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back. But like Plato before him, Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious and dark and fraught with danger. And not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return. (P)2013 Hodder & Stoughton

The Orpheus Descent

Broken Yard is a riveting, eye-opening account of corruption, racism and mismanagement inside Britain’s most famous police force. The book charts Scotland Yard’s fall from a position of unparalleled power to the troubled and discredited organisation we see today, barely trusted by its Westminster masters and struggling to perform its most basic function: the protection of the public. Barely a week goes by without the Metropolitan Police Service plunging into a new crisis. Steeped in ignominy and depleted in numbers, the Met is a shadow of its former self. From the Stephen Lawrence case to the murder of Sarah Everard, Tom Harper examines the most notorious cases involving the Met over the past thirty years. The result is a devastating picture of a world-famous police force riven with corruption, misogyny and rank incompetence. As a top investigative reporter at the Sunday Times and The Independent, Tom Harper covered Scotland Yard for fifteen years, beginning not long after the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian killed by Met police officers after being mistaken for a terror suspect in 2005. Since then, reporting on Scotland Yard has been akin to witnessing a slow-motion car crash.

Broken Yard

BOOK 19 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM GLOBAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH. BOOK 3 IN THE TIGER'S PREY SEQUENCE. The Courtney family is torn apart as three generations fight on opposing sides of a terrible war that will change the face of the world forever, set against the backdrop of the American revolution. 'Best historical novelist' Stephen King 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' The Times THREE GENERATIONS. A DEVASTATING WAR. 1774. Rob Courtney has spent his whole life in a quiet trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, dreaming of a life of adventure at sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies, and the mysterious Captain Cornish calls into the fort, Rob takes his chance and stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by the charms of the big city and soon finds himself desperate and penniless. That is until the navy comes calling. Rob enlists and is sent across the Atlantic on a ship to join the war against the rebellious American colonists. But on the other side of the Atlantic, unbeknownst to Rob, his distant cousins Cal and Aidan Courtney are leading a campaign against the British in a quest for American Independence. When Aidan is killed in a fierce battle with British troops, Cal vows he will not rest until he has avenged his brother's death, by driving the British out of America - by whatever means necessary . . . A powerful new historical thriller by the master of adventure fiction, Wilbur Smith, of families divided and a country on the brink of revolution. Don't miss the next book in the Courtney family series, Nemesis. Available now. 'Storm Tide' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/e 17-04-2022.

Storm Tide

The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure. Tom Courtney, one of four sons of master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, once again sets sail on a treacherous journey that will take him across the vast reaches of the ocean and pit him against dangerous enemies in exotic destinations. But just as the winds propel his sails, passion drives his heart. Turning his ship towards the unknown, Tom Courtney will ultimately find his destiny—and lay the future for the Courtney family. Wilbur Smith, the world’s greatest storyteller, once again recreates all the drama, uncertainty, and courage of a bygone era in this thrilling saga of the sea.

The Tiger's Prey

The new Courtney Series epic A BATTLE FOR HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMY South Africa, 1820 When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child - Harry - with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own. After two years of disaster and hardship in the African interior, desperation drives Ann and Harry back into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped from Robben Island and is determined to seek his fortune in Nativity Bay, the hidden harbour that his father told him about when he was a boy. But it isn't long before Ralph, Ann and their fellow settlers learn that Nativity Bay now lies on the borders of a mighty kingdom, where the warrior king Shaka rules. With no means of making their way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph is forced into a bargain with the Zulu king which will lead him to confront the past that he has been running from for his entire life. BOOK 23 IN THE LONG-RUNNING EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY FROM WILBUR SMITH. BOOK 24, FIRE ON THE HORIZON, IS AVAILABLE NOW. Praise for Wilbur Smith 'A master storyteller' Sunday Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror 'Best historical novelist' Stephen King

Warrior King

Stormvloed, het twintigste deel in de Courtney-serie van Wilbur Smith, is een episch verhaal over moed, wraak en vrijheid, een intens verdeelde familie en een land op de rand van een revolutie. Stormvloed, het twintigste deel in de Courtney-serie van bestsellerauteur Wilbur Smith, speelt zich af in de periode na Courtney's vuur. Het is 1774 en Rob Courtney groeit op aan de oostkust van Afrika, dromend van een avontuurlijk leven op zee. Wanneer zijn grootvader sterft, grijpt Rob zijn kans en vertrekt naar Engeland. Aangekomen in Londen wordt hij verleid door de charmes van de grote stad en al snel raakt hij al zijn geld en hoop op avontuur kwijt. Totdat hij bij de marine terechtkomt. Rob wordt de Atlantische Oceaan over gestuurd om te strijden tegen de opstandige Amerikaanse kolonisten. Maar aan de andere kant van de oceaan leiden zijn verre neven Cal en Aidan Courtney, zonder dat Rob het weet, een opstand tegen de Britten. Hun enige wens is Amerikaanse onafhankelijkheid, en ze zijn vastbesloten om de Britten uit Amerika te verdrijven. In hun strijd voor vrijheid laten ze zich door niets of niemand tegenhouden... Stormvloed van Wilbur Smith is een episch verhaal over moed, wraak en vrijheid, een intens verdeelde familie en een land op de rand van een alles veranderende revolutie. 'Topamusement.' - de Volkskrant 'De allerbeste historische-romanschrijver.' - Stephen King

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Stormvloed

Het Courtney-epos gaat verder: Tom Courtney zet alles op het spel om zijn toekomst veilig te stellen

De prooi van de tijger

In Aartsvijand van meesters van het avontuur Wilbur Smith en Tom Harper gaat Paul Courtney met het leger van Napoleon naar Egypte. Hoever zal hij gaan om te overleven in een wereld die in brand staat? Het verhaal van Aartsvijand, het eenentwintigste deel in de Courtney-serie van bestsellerauteur Wilbur Smith, begint in Parijs, 1794. Paul Courtney kijkt toe hoe zijn moeder naar de guillotine wordt gebracht en weet dat hij er alles aan moet doen om aan hetzelfde lot te ontsnappen. Paul voegt zich bij het leger van Napoleon en wordt naar Egypte gestuurd. Maar hoever zal hij gaan om te overleven - in een wereld die in brand staat en waarin zich in elke hoek verraders verschuilen? Kaapstad, 1806. Tien jaar later zweert Adam Courtney op het Neptunus-zwaard van zijn vader dat hij niet zal rusten voor hij de eer van zijn familie heeft hersteld. Op zijn tocht van Kaapstad naar Calcutta ontdekt Adam dat de vijand die hij zoekt misschien dichterbij is dan hij denkt... Aartsvijand van Wilbur Smith en Tom Harper heeft alle ingrediënten van een écht Courtney-verhaal: avontuur, liefde, wraak, familiegeheimen en spanning. 'Topamusement.' ‒ de Volkskrant 'De allerbeste historische romanschrijver.' ‒ Stephen King

Aartsvijand

Seit Hunderten von Jahren kennen sie das Geheimnis der Macht. Ellie Stanton, Historikerin und mittellose Oxford-Doktorandin, erhält von einer kleinen Londoner Privatbank ein unwiderstehliches Jobangebot. Dabei versteht sie gar nichts von Investment. Schnell zeigt sich, dass die Arbeit das geringste Problem ist: Ihr gesamtes Leben scheint nun dem Bankier Blanchard zu gehören. Dann macht Ellie eine Entdeckung: Die Bank wurde auf den Grundfesten einer uralten Kirche errichtet. In ihren Gewölben soll Blanchard ein Geheimnis hüten. Ein Geheimnis, das unermessliche Macht verspricht und das unauflösbar mit Ellies Familiengeschichte verbunden ist.

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