Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 481 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 880) Аннотация: Sasha 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 Sasha’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: Sasha, a man in tune with his…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 517 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 887) Аннотация: In the second half of the twentieth century, the future bears down on Africa — fueled by the sins of the past and the blood feuds of nations, tribes, and families. For the Courtney family, who have known this continent from the depths of its gold mines to the pinnacle of political power, a time of reckoning is at hand. Shasa Courtney has lived, fought and loved amongst Afrikaners, Englishmen, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army—and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords. Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland—and into the sights of his enemy’s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: North of Johannesburg, five companies share the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For some men, gold mining is a way of life and death. For some it's just a business. For one man, it's the most dangerous game of all... Rod Ironsides makes love to his boss's wife and drives his miners faster and harder than anyone has ever dared. A few weeks ago, Ironsides…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close to the earth, as white men dug fortunes out from beneath them and laid plans for a new civilization. Out of Southern Africa the enigmatic Cecil Rhodes built an empire in the late…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Wilbur Smith’s adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization’s war...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A thrilling, cross-continent adventure, this classic by «New York Times» bestselling author Smith tells the story of combat flying in Israel and violence in the African bush. But above all, it tells a compelling love story.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 538 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 695) Аннотация: In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper — in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman — into an uncharted…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 614 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 710) Аннотация: It was called The Devils's Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels. Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil's Own mine as his ticket to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: He began life at his twin brother’s side, soon running wild on his father’s ranch on the edge of Africa. But violence, desire, and fate sent Sean Courtney into exile—where he would fight and love his way to extraordinary success and heartbreaking failure... In a place called The Ridge of White Waters, Sean made a life-long friendship, mined a fortune of gold, and met his own demons. Then an act…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: With adventure in their blood, Jim and Mansur Courtney seek to carve out a life for themselves and their families in the unexplored splendor of Africa. But laying claim to a land devastated by war yields unexpected risks. No sooner does their journey unfold than their destiny changes with the daring rescue of a woman imprisoned on a doomed convict ship. Blazing a thousand-mile trail, they escape…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Beautiful women bent on hijacking a 747 begin a tense tale of intrigue, betrayal and violent action, from the bestselling author Wilbur Smith.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 130 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 615) Аннотация: Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely. For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 049 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 403) Аннотация: The deep. The deadly. The damned... For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier school of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous mystery by men willing to kill and a beautiful woman willing…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The «Wolf of Rome», Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 549 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 501) Аннотация: Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor's edge between human courage and nature's wrath. InHungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life — and for redemption. Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles — some original and some simplified — from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600);…