TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Wilbur A. TI - Assegai SN - 9780312567248 (alk. paper) AV - PR9405.9.S5 A9 2009 U1 - 823/.914 23 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Thomas Dunne Books KW - British KW - Africa, East KW - Fiction KW - Hunting guides KW - Germans KW - Safaris KW - Spy stories KW - gsafd KW - Historical fiction N1 - Map on endpapers N2 - 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 ER -