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Assegai /

Smith, Wilbur A.

Assegai / Wilbur Smith. - - New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. - 471 p. : col. map ; 25 cm.

Map on endpapers.

On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information on one of his clients, Count Otto von Meerbach, and soon finds himself left alone to frustrate von Meerbach's plan to wipe out the British forces in Africa.

9780312567248 (alk. paper) 0312567243 (alk. paper)

2009001383


British--Africa, East--Fiction.
Hunting guides--Fiction.
Germans--Africa, East--Fiction.
Safaris--Africa, East--Fiction.


Spy stories.
Historical fiction.

PR9405.9.S5 / A9 2009

823/.914 / S663