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Also by Wilbur Smith:

The Tiger\'s Prey, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback
War Cry, October 2017
Mass Market Paperback
Pharaoh, June 2017
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
War Cry, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Pharaoh, October 2016
Hardcover
Predator, April 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Desert God, February 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Golden Lion: A Novel of Heroes in a Time of War, October 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Desert God, August 2015
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Desert God, November 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Hungry as the Sea, April 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Assegai, May 2009
Hardcover
The Quest, May 2007
Hardcover

ASSEGAI
By: Wilbur Smith

Thomas Dunne Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 12, 2009
480 pages
ISBN: 0312567243
EAN: 9780312567248
Hardcover
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Fiction

Wilbur Smith has won acclaim worldwide as the master of the historical novel. Now, in Assegai he takes readers on an unforgettable African adventure set against the gathering clouds of war.

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 Kaiser’s burgeoning army. While spying, Leon falls desperately in love with von Meerbach’s 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 Meerbach’s plan, and in grave peril as he learns more about the enigmatic Eva.

Set amidst the tensions that will spark a war across continents, Assegai delivers the fast-paced action and vivid history that has made Wilbur Smith an internationally bestselling author.