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Assegai
Wilbur Smith

Assegai

MacMillan (UK) (Apr 03, 2009)
9780230529205
| Hardcover
672 pages | 158 x 250 mm | English
Dewey 823.914

Genre

  • Adventure Stories

Subject

  • British
  • Courtney Family (Fictitious Characters)
  • Germans
  • Hunting Guides
  • Safaris♯zAfrica, East

Plot

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress.