Saga de la familia Courtney Serie

Esta serie sigue los destinos de la familia Courtney mientras luchan por sobrevivir y prosperar en períodos históricos turbulentos. La historia se centra en sus relaciones, ambiciones y conflictos que dan forma a sus vidas. Cada entrega presenta nuevas generaciones y desafíos que muestran cómo la familia se enfrenta a un mundo cambiante. Los lectores pueden esperar giros dramáticos y profundidad emocional.

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When the lion feeds
Wilbur A. Smith
544 páginas
20 horas de lectura
"Sean Courtney was raised in cattle country, and accidently maimed his twin brother Garry as a boy. In inflicting weakness, Sean came to despise weakness in all. This, plus his own strength, was to dictate Sean's iron resolve to win, no matter how much the gamble cost. After a stint fighting the Zulu tribes, Sean trys his luck in the gold fields. Venturing an impossible claim which miraculously proves out, Sean gains wealth beyond counting and power. Power that was unmanageable without cunning. But cunning was an art he was to learn the hard way."
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The Sound of thunder
Wilbur A. Smith
485 páginas
17 horas de lectura
THE ROAR OF THUNDER (known as THE SOUND OF THUNDER in the United Kingdom) continues the Courtney saga where WHEN THE LIONS FEEDS left off. Sean Courtney is off to fight the burghers in the Boer War -- first in harrowing missions on the front lines for the British Guides, then as the leader of commandos designed to fight the Boers on their own terms -- guerilla combat in the field. The peace that follows find Sean with hopes of marriage and settling down to farming. But the hatred borne by his twin brother will not allow a peaceful life. Garry, who has been forced to live in the shadow of his twin's superiority since childhood, has vowed to pay him back for the wrongs done him.
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Sparrow Falls
Wilbur A. Smith
603 páginas
22 horas de lectura
A Sparrow Falls, another gripping installment in Wilbur Smith's Courtney Family Adventure series 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….
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Costa ardiente
Wilbur A. Smith
544 páginas
20 horas de lectura
En la primavera de 1918, Michael, heredero de la poderosa familiar courtney, conoce a Centaine, una chica francesa de noble cuna. Entre ellos nace un amor apasionado que la violencia de la guerra interrumpe abruptamente. Desolada, Centaine decide que el hijo que lleva en sus entrañas ha de nacer en Sudáfrica, la tierra natal de Michael. Costa ardiente es la historia de una mujer valiente y encantadora, que va en busca de lo que los bosqumanos del desierto llamas las aguas buenas de la vida.
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Power of the sword
Wilbur A. Smith
624 páginas
22 horas de lectura
Across the goldfields of South Africa to the 1930s Olympics in Berlin, this is an astonishing novel of adventure from one of the world's most celebrated novelists They were half-brothers, raised in different worlds in the same country, and destined to be lifelong enemies. Manfred De La Ray and Shasa Courtney, sons of Centaine de Thiry, were blood enemies from their very first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africa's history through two decades, they found themselves adversaries in an age-old war of savagery to seize the sword of power in their land. Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the highland to the secret citadels of Afrikaaner power, from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler's Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia.
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Rage
Wilbur A. Smith
672 páginas
24 horas de lectura
Ruggedly sensual Shasa Courtney and coldly upright Manfred De La Rey -- half-brothers, yet as different as British and Boer can be -- share but one trait: a hunger for absolute power in a South Africa battered by ever-mounting tides of black rage that threaten to engulf them all.
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A Time to Die
Wilbur A. Smith
450 páginas
16 horas de lectura
Beneath the unforgiving, blazing heat of the African sun, two men and a woman embark on a savage hunt. A hunt that will tear their safari apart, plunging them into the relentless tides of a deadly cival war. For Sean Courtney, veteran gurillia warrior and professional adventurer, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro it is a time to face the ultimate test in a world where American values count for nothing. And for Riccardo, her father, a rich and ruthless tycoon, it is a time to confront a dangerous obsession. But in the struggles of passion and blood follow, Sean knows one thing for certain: this is a time to die, and he must battle viciously to live, to love and to triumph. -- back cover
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Golden fox
Wilbur A. Smith
576 páginas
21 horas de lectura
She felt Ramn come awake and spring from the bed, naked and lithe as a jungle cat. She heard the metallic snicker of a firearm as he snatched the pistol from the holster. In the darkness a yellow flower of gun-flamed bloomed, and a single bullet whiplashed across twenty yards of open ground... In the searing heat of a divided Africa two decades of bitter dynastic conflict explode with terrifying ferocity. To Gary and Sean Courtney it is a struggle to the end; brother pitted against brother as they are dragged unwittingly into the lair of an international terrorist. Only Isabella Courtney stands between them and the mutual destruction they have willed for so long. Beautiful, headstrong Isabella; the link to 'Golden Fox' - a man whose alias hides a sinister and deadly secret... Traversing a vast panorama, from the heart of London society to the grandeur of Spain, from parched Ethiopia to war-torn Angola and on to the blazing hunting grounds of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Golden Fox is masterful storytelling from the arena of war; an adventure of stirring, irresistible intensity.
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Birds of Prey
Wilbur A. Smith
554 páginas
20 horas de lectura
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.
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El monzón
Wilbur A. Smith
386 páginas
14 horas de lectura
El juramento continua y culmina la historia apasionante de los Courtney en el siglo dieciocho, iniciada con El monzon. Es otro eslabon de la gran saga familiar creada por Wilbur Smith. En su lecho de muerte, el veterano marino Hal Courtney obtiene de su hijo menor secuestrado por los arabes, y arranca de su primogenito William el compromiso de financiar la empresa. Guiado por una antigua profecia, el poderoso Al-Malik. principe de Oman, trata a Dorian como a un hijo, mientras Tom Courtney emprende afanosamente su busqueda.
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Blue Horizon
Wilbur A. Smith
624 páginas
22 horas de lectura
In this novel, the Courtneys are out to stake their claim in Southern Africa, travelling along the infamous Robber Road. This exciting and hazardous journey takes them through the untouched wilderness of a beautiful land filled with warring tribes and wild animals.
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The Triumph of the Sun
Wilbur A. Smith
600 páginas
21 horas de lectura
In 1884, Ryder Courtney is trapped in Khartoum during the Sudanese rebellion. He fights long-side Captain Penrod Ballantyne and the British Consul, David Benbrook, as they struggle to survive the bloody siege of Khartoum.
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Assegai
Wilbur A. Smith
512 páginas
18 horas de lectura
It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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Golden lion
Wilbur A. Smith
Worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series.
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War Cry
Wilbur A. Smith
512 páginas
18 horas de lectura
With his headstrong daughter Saffron pursuing her education in London at Oxford, Leon Courtney navigates the politics of colonial Kenya.
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The Tiger's Prey
Wilbur A. Smith
432 páginas
16 horas de lectura
The Malabar coast is full of dangers: greedy tradesmen, fearless pirates, and men full of vengeance. But for a Courtney, the greatest danger might just be his own family On the perilous waters of the Arabian Sea, the fates of men will intertwine.
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Courtney's War
Wilbur A. Smith
464 páginas
17 horas de lectura
Paris, 1939. Torn apart by war, Saffron Courtney and Gerhard von Meerbach are thousands of miles apart, both struggling for their lives. Gerhard - despite his objections to the Nazi regime - is fighting for the Fatherland, hoping to one day have the opportunity to rid Germany of Hitler and his cronies. But as his unit is thrown into the hellish attrition of the Battle of Stalingrad, he knows his chances of survival are dwindling by the day. Meanwhile Saffron - recruited by the Special Operations Executive and sent to occupied Belgium to discover how the Nazis have infiltrated SOE's network - soon finds herself being hunted by Germany's most ruthless spymaster. Confronted by evil beyond their worst imaginings, the lovers must each make the hardest choice of all: sacrifice themselves, or do whatever they can to survive, hoping that one day they will be reunited.
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Ghost Fire
Wilbur A. Smith
464 páginas
17 horas de lectura
In this brand new Courtney Series novel by bestselling author, Wilbur Smith, comes an epic story of tragedy, loss, betrayal and courage that brings the reader deep into the seething heart of the French and Indian War. 1754.
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Legacy of War
Wilbur A. Smith
A nail-biting story of courage, bravery, rebellion and war from the master of adventure fiction. As the situation becomes violent, and the Courtney family home is under threat, Leon Courtney finds himself caught between two powerful sides - and a battle for the freedom of a country.
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Storm Tide
Wilbur A. Smith
464 páginas
17 horas de lectura
When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies, and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Even the family is divided, with Theo's oldest son Cal an ardent American patriot, while Theo himself feels a strong tie to his mother country, England.
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Nemesis
Wilbur A. Smith
480 páginas
17 horas de lectura
Adam Courtney has spent his life in service to the navy and in the shadow of his father, the illustrious Admiral Robert Courtney. But when he returns home to Nativity Bay to find the homestead destroyed and the Courtney family murdered, Adam must accept his destiny and seek vengeance.
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Warrior King
Wilbur A. Smith
400 páginas
14 horas de lectura
South Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy.
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