Tag: Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith returns to his legendary Courtney Series with a brand new World War II thriller in Crossfire. The year is 1943, and the tide of the Second World War is beginning to turn. The Russian victory at Stalingrad, the bloodiest battle in history, has opened the door for the Allies. With momentum shifting, they must now strike decisively at the heart of Hitler’s Reich. However, success on the battlefield depends entirely on total secrecy.

South Africa, 1899 - the smouldering hostility between the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal is about to burst into flame. War is coming and no one can prevent it. Colonel Penrod Ballantyne, hero of Abu Klea and Omdurman, is sent to Mafeking, 'the place of stones', to recruit and train men for the fighting ahead.

A kingdom steeped in blood. A family forged anew. By Wilbur Smith with Tom Harper South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in...