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Wilbur Smith fue un maestro de la narrativa épica, dotando a sus novelas de aventura y suspense. Sus obras, meticulosamente investigadas, transportan a los lectores a épocas históricas vívidamente imaginadas y a exóticos escenarios. Smith destacaba en la creación de personajes cautivadores y tramas intrincadas que mantenían al público fascinado. Su singular voz narrativa y su dedicación a la exploración de vastos lienzos históricos cimentaron su reputación como un fenómeno literario global.






Nicholas Berg, presidente de una gran empresa naviera, ha sido depuesto de su cargo, y es ahora capitán de un modesto remolcador. El heroico salvataje de un transatlántico atrapado en la soledad de los hielos antárticos, con seiscientos pasajeros a bordo, le da la posibilidad de luchar para reconquistar el poder que ha perdido. Nicholas sabe que no debe desaprovechar esta oportunidad, y actúa con toda la decisión de su obstinado temperamento.
Wilbur Smith's adventure tales are big, bold and unforgettable. In SHOUT AT THE DEVIL , the New York Times bestselling master storyteller takes us to a brutal paradise engulfed in the fires of civilization's war... A MAN ON HIS OWN They couldn't be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O'Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn't break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors. A WOMAN IN LOVE From the moment Rosa O'Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love forever—never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where O'Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fear—and everything to lose... A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALL From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival—against nature, man, and the devil himself...
Harry Fletcher is a reformed man, and is now making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the Indian ocean. Suddenly men from his violent past overun his good intentions and involve him in a race to recover treasure from an ancient wreck.
‘With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.’ Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country’s war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart . . .
L'Egypte du deuxième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ, ses pharaons qui ont fait l'histoire, ses temples majestueux, ses divinités omniprésentes dont les pouvoirs façonnent les destinées de tout un peuple, tel est le décor grandiose du nouveau récit de Wilbur Smith, le maître incontesté du roman d'aventures. [Payot.ch]
Egypte wordt getroffen door een serie plagen die het koninkrijk grote schade toebrengen, maar de ergste moet nog komen: de Nijl houdt op met stromen. Ergens diep in het onbekende hart van Afrika, daar waar de machtige rivier zijn oorsprong vindt, moet iets catastrofaals gebeurd zijn. De farao is de wanhoop nabij en stuurt Taita eropuit de enige man die in staat is door te dringen tot de bron van de Nijl en de oorzaak van alle problemen te vinden. Maar niemand vermoedt welke vreselijke vijand The Warlock ligt op te wachten in dit mysterieuze land aan het einde van hun wereld.
Una famiglia divisa dalla guerra. Un eroe nato dalla tragedia. Un legame destinato a durare tutta la vita. 1754. Nati e cresciuti a Madras, Theo Courtney e sua sorella Connie sono sempre stati inseparabili, ma la tragica morte dei genitori li separa bruscamente. Theo, tormentato dai sensi di colpa, cerca il riscatto arruolandosi nell'esercito britannico e combattendo nella Guerra franco-indiana. Connie, convinta di essere stata abbandonata dal fratello, dopo aver subito ogni sorta di abusi e angherie da chi avrebbe dovuto proteggerla, riesce infine a fuggire in Francia e a farsi accettare nell'alta società parigina. Ma ancora una volta si ritrova alla mercé di uomini crudeli e senza scrupoli, la cui sete di potere e di gloria finisce per condurla suo malgrado sul fronte nordamericano della Guerra dei sette anni. Quando le loro strade si incontrano di nuovo, i due fratelli si rendono conto che la vendetta e la redenzione che entrambi stanno disperatamente cercando potrebbero costare loro la vita... Una nuova generazione di Courtney lotta per la libertà in un susseguirsi di dolorose tragedie e grandi passioni, atti di eroismo e orribili tradimenti, che portano il lettore nel cuore pulsante della Guerra franco-indiana.
It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold.
Een gebochelde archeoloog en zijn assistente gaan samen met een vriend op zoek naar een verloren stad in Botswana. Na het vinden van enkele oude papyrusrollen ziet de archeoloog in een visioen het leven van de bewoners van deze oude stad.