A Sparrow Falls – Wilbur Smith

Description

A Sparrow Falls, another gripping installment in Wilbur Smith’s Courtney Family Adventure series- Book 3

Condition: Good condition for 1978. It is the first UK paperback edition.

541 pages, Paperback

From the trenches of France in the First World War, through the violence of the Johannesburg strikes of the 1920s, the last chapter of Sean Courtney’s epic life takes him home to the serene splendours of the African wilderness.
The man who made and lost £5,000,000 on the goldfields of Witwatersrand, who fought his way through the blood and the battles of the Boer War,now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land…

Mark Anders grew up on eight thousand acres of African land that bore his family name. Then he fought in Europe’s Great War and, upon returning to his ancestral home, he saw savagery unlike any other….

In Africa, Mark’s family estate has been despoiled. His grandfather has died under mysterious circumstances. And he has inherited a murderous enemy–the rogue scion of the powerful Courtney clan–in an altogether new kind of war.

Now, Mark will make a fateful choice between two women. Journey into the wilderness to uncover his grandfather’s fate. Find his way through battles raging between fathers and sons, generals and politicians, and nature and man. In an age of violent conflict, Mark Anders will live or die for justice–and his fight will echo across a country he always loved….