"Shasa Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Shasa's brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter-of lions, and of men. As the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Shasa, a man in tune with his continent and its people; Manfred who, like his father, was willing to shape his world with a gun. So when the winds of World War II reached Africa, each brother chose a side …
Now, the future of a young nation is being forged amidst a clash of civilizations, ideals, and blood feuds. And as Shasa and Manfred rise to power, a land of beauty and suffering will be remade - for better or for worse - in an image of their own, in Wilbur Smith's Power of the Sword".
Power of the Sword is a rich and thrilling adventure, a magnificent feat of storytelling that sweeps the reader from the deserts, mountains and cities of Africa to the heartland of Nazi Germany and from the turmoil of the Depression years into the white heat of war.
A novel of life-long love and hate, of courage and revenger, Power of the Sword is the story of two half-brothers - the sons of Centaine de Thiry Courtney from The Burning Shore - caught up in the tumult of their nation's history through almost two decades. Blood enemies from their first boyhood encounter, Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney find themselves adversaries in a war of age-old savagery to seize the sword of power in their land.
Moving from the teeming goldfields of the Highveld to the secret citadels of Afrikaner power, from the ringing of Olympic stadia of Berlin in 1936 to the raging skies over the Abyssinian hills, Power of the Sword is simply epic fiction rooted in documentary fact - a majestic entertainment by a master of his craft.
This 1986 edition book runs to an impressive 624 pages. The book is in excellent condition although the dust jacket is very tatty. Shipping Costs are £3.69p GBP by Royal Mail 2nd Class parcel services (actual cost of postage).
The author: Wilbur SMITH was the bestselling author of many novels, each researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His bestselling Courtney series includes Assegai, The Sound of Thunder, Birds of Prey, Monsoon, and Blue Horizon. His other books include Those in Peril, River God, Warlock, The Seventh Scroll, and The Sunbird. His books have been translated into twenty-six languages and have sold over 120 million copies. Smith was born to a British family in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in Central Africa, and attended Rhodes University in South Africa. By the time of his death in 2021 he had published 49 books and had sold more than 140 million copies. Wilbur Smith died at his Cape Town home on November 13, 2021 aged 88 years.
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