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Assegai

Courtney - Assegai, Book 1

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Assegai

By: Wilbur Smith
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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From directly overhead he heard the loud flapping of heavy wings, and another vulture rose from beyond the screen of banana plants. Leon felt the chill of dread. If the brutes are settling that means there's meat lying out there, dead meat.

King and country. No matter the cost.

With the backing of his uncle, General Penrod Ballantyne, young Leon Courtney joins the King's Rifles of Nairobi. When he becomes discouraged by the dishonesty of army life, his uncle recruits him for a special mission - spying on the Germans in East Africa, whom the General suspects are preparing for the Kaiser's war. Posing as a professional game hunter, Leon is tasked with gathering information on one of his clients, wealthy industrialist Otto Von Meerbach.

Leon finds himself falling for Von Meerbach's beautiful mistress but never forgets that his real mission is to destroy the enemy. But how easy will he find his task when his true enemy is closer to home than Leon ever expected?

A Courtney adventure - book 1 in the Assegai sequence.

©2009 Wilbur Smith (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Action & Adventure Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Romance Africa War Royalty Military

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yet again Wibour Smith has proven his genius. A must read novel in the Courtney series.

more of this great series about the Courtney famil

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This is no edge of the seat story but a slow burn. It is important to remember although written in 2009 the style is of a few decades earlier.

A slow burn

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Huge fan of Wilbur Smith, Assegai does not let you down, Audible is great even though its 2nd time I have read this novel 1st time being paper back

Fantastic

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Fantastic story leading up to WW1. Have followed the series and have not been disappointed.

Gripping and well performed story

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The Wilber Smith adventure starts as it ends , thrilling story from the first line to the last

True adventure on the African continent!!

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