10 - Monsoon / Smith Wilbur

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It is the dawn of the eighteenth century.  At the farthest edge of theknown world, the mighty Eastern India Trading Company sufferscatastrophic losses from pirates on the high seas.
 
After four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage, a death or glory missionin the name of Empire and the Crown.
 
Also by Wilbur Smith THE COURTNEYS When the Lion Feeds The Sound ofThunder A Sparrow Falls Birds of Prey

03 - A Sparrow Falls / Smith Wilbur

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Mark never heard the Mauser shot for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him, and as he fell there was the sensation of being ingulfed in a swirling vortax of blacknessand he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead.
From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders the courageous young South african whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing...

08 - A Time To Die / Smith Wilbur

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02 - The Sound of Thunder / Smith Wilbur

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09 - Birds Of Prey / Smith Wilbur

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01 - When The Lion Feeds / Smith Wilbur

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06 - Rage / Smith Wilbur

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The decades after World War II, South Africa struggles against the tribal violence at its heart. It is a conflict vividly mirrored by one family--the Courtneys--unified by a magnificent rage to live, shattered by a lust for power

Los Courtney 06 - Tiempo de Morir / Smith Wilbur

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Idioma: español

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-- A time to die
Sean Courtney, cazador profesional, guía a un poderoso millonario en la persecución de un gran elefante. La expedición se interna en Mozambique y de pronto se ve envuelta en la guerra civil que azota al país.

07 - Golden Fox / Smith Wilbur

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04 - The Burning Shore / Smith Wilbur

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Centaine screamed and drove the point of her stave down into the jaws with all her strength. She felt the sharpened end bite into the soft pink mucous membrane in the the back of its throat, saw the spurt of scarlet blood, and then the lion locked its jaws on the stave and with a toss of its flying mane ripped it out of her hands and sent it windmilling out and down to hit the earth below.
The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun and extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realising some of the dreams which she and Michael Courtney had shared - and sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michaels birth.

05 - Power Of The Sword / Smith Wilbur

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Half-brothers and blood enemies Manfred de la Rey and Shasa Courtney, the sons of Centaine de Thiry-Courtney, are irrevocably caught up in an age-old and savage war to seize the sword of power in their land. The Power of the Sword follows them through two decades of South African history in an epic story of life-long love and hate, of rivalry and revenge, of winners and losers in a deadly struggle where only the ruthless survive.