Wilbur Smith - Assegai

It is with great pleasure that Exclusive Books and Pan Macmillan announce the arrival of Wilbur Smith's latest novel – Assegai, a hugely compelling novel about the Courtneys of Africa from one of the world's best loved storytellers.

To celebrate the arrival of Assegai at Exclusive Books, we will be giving away 20 prizes to Fanatics members who buy a copy of this new novel between the official release date on Thursday 12 March 2009 and Sunday 22 March inclusive. The prizes are: one of five signed copies of Assegai, one of ten Getaway hampers to the value of R550 each and one of five R200 Fanatics reward vouchers. You will be automatically entered into the competition and winners will be notified by Friday 27 March 2009.

But wait, there’s more! If you buy a copy of Assegai before Sunday 22 March 2009, you will earn 400 BONUS points and receive a R20-off voucher for you to use on any of Wilbur Smith's backlist titles.

Hardback
EAN : 9780230529205
478 pages
Publication Date : 12 March 2009
Publisher : PAN MACMILLAN
Country of publication: United Kingdom

Biography
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 books are now translated into twenty-six languages.

Synopsis
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. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

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