Shout at the Devil - Couverture souple

Smith, Wilbur A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749324317 ISBN 13 : 9780749324315

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Smith Wilbur A

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Shout at the Devil is a tense adventure novel from master of the genre, Wilbur Smith, set during the outbreak of the First World War.

'Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain of glassy grey rose high above the raft, shielding it for a few seconds from the whip of the wind, its crest blowing off like the plume of an Etruscan helmet, before it slid down, collapsing upon itself in the tumbling roar of breaking water.'

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 . . .

Biographie de l'auteur :

Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His other titles include the successful The Courtneys and The Ballantynes series, and Those in Peril and Vicious Circle, featuring security operative Hector Cross. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0749324317
• ISBN 13: 9780749324315
• Reliure: Broché