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From best-selling novelist Wilbur Smith, The Eye of the Tiger is an exciting adventure set amongst the peaceful islands of the Indian Ocean, where a man's past returns to hunt him down. Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.

Il gioco è la guerra. Il premio in palio un territorio. Il castigo per la sconfitta è la morte.Un romanzo dal respiro epico, che segue la vita di Sean Courtney, protagonista del primo romanzo di Wilbur Smith, Il destino del leone, sullo sfondo della guerra anglo-boera e della pace che ne seguì. In una nuova traduzione. Quando Sean Courtney torna a casa dopo aver trascorso quattro anni nel cuore selvaggio dell’Africa, scopre che l’Impero britannico e la Repubblica del Transvaal sono in guerra.

It is 1667, and the war between the Dutch and the English continues apace. Sir Francis Courtney, his son Hal and their crew are carried around the southern tip of the African colonies by the good ship Lady Edwina, licensed to attack and seize the treasure-laden ships of the Dutch East India company. When they capture a Dutch trader and hold the passengers to ransom, Sir Francis hopes only for a good price and a small sense of satisfaction.   

Taita is a humble slave, an expert in art, poetry, medicine and engineering as well as keeping important secrets. He is the most treasured possession of Lord Intef. Yet when Intef's beautiful daughter, Lostris, is married to the Pharaoh, Taita is commanded to follow her and swiftly finds himself deeper than he ever could have imagined in a world of deception and treachery. But outside the palace, the great kingdom of Egypt is divided and in even greater danger. Enemies threaten on all sides, and only Taita holds the power to save them all....

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction. From being attacked by lions to close encounters with deadly reef sharks, from getting lost in the African bush without water to crawling the precarious tunnels of gold mines, from marlin fishing with Lee Marvin to near death from crash-landing a Cessna airplane, from brutal school days to redemption through writing and falling in love, Wilbur Smith tells us the intimate stories of his life that have been the raw material for his fiction.

I Courtney incontrano i Ballantyne, in questo indimenticabile romanzo d’amore e avventura che ha visto nascere le due coppie protagoniste di Re dei Re. In una nuova traduzione. Decenni di malgoverno del khedivè egiziano hanno innescato una sanguinosa insurrezione nel Sudan, e ora le truppe del Mahdi, il carismatico leader religioso a capo dei ribelli, cingono d’assedio la capitale Khartoum.

Das internationale Phänomen, das den Weltruhm des Autors begründet hat. Natal, Südafrika im Jahr 1860: Als Erben der väterlichen Farm ist den Courtney-Zwillingen Sean und Garrick ein ehrliches Leben unter der unnachgiebigen afrikanischen Sonne vorherbestimmt. Doch alles kommt anders, als zwischen den englischen Kolonialisten und ansässigen Zulu-Stämmen Krieg ausbricht: Die Brüder werden auseinandergerissen – und während Garrick auf der Familienfarm zurückbleibt, beginnt für Sean ein Leben voller Wagnisse. Nervenkitzel der Großwildjagd in den weitläufigen Steppen.

Taita è un umile schiavo; poeta, medico, ingegnere, sa bene come mantenere un segreto e proprio per questo è una delle proprietà che il nobile Intef considera più preziose. Eppure, quando sua figlia, la bellissima Lostris, viene data in sposa al faraone, inspiegabilmente il potente signore gli ordina di seguirla. Di colpo, Taita si ritrova immerso in un mondo di oscuri intrighi e biechi tradimenti.

Dopo anni passati sotto il giogo degli Hyksos, quello che un tempo era il potentissimo Egitto è ora in rovina. La popolazione è sofferente, e anche se il faraone ha riconquistato il trono che gli spettava di diritto il suo potere si è indebolito a dismisura. Tanto che c’è chi trama nell’ombra per approfittare del caos in cui è precipitato il paese dopo la vittoria contro l’oppressore. Deciso a riunire i due regni sotto la guida del faraone, il grande mago Taita affida al suo pupillo Piay una nuova, pericolosissima missione che ha l’obiettivo di risolvere un enigma vecchio di secoli, un enigma che risale ai tempi del Faraone Imhotep.

Africa Orientale, 1906. Con l'appoggio dello zio, il colonnello Penrod Ballantyne, Leon Courtney si unisce ai King's African Rifles, ma ben presto, deluso dalla disonestà che regna nell'esercito, si rende conto che quella vita non fa per lui. Penrod, allora, che conosce la passione del nipote per la caccia grossa, gli propone una delicata missione sotto copertura: spacciandosi per un cacciatore professionista, dovrà spiare i movimenti dei tedeschi, che sembra si stiano preparando a combattere per la Germania del Kaiser, e raccogliere informazioni su un ricco industriale, il Conte Otto von Meerbach.

Ralph Ballantyne är redo att förvalta det arv hans far Zouga jobbat hårt för att bygga upp. Han är mer än villig att följa i faderns fotspår som framträdande förespråkare för det brittiska kolonialväldet i Afrika. Men för varje dag som går ökar spänningarna i Rhodesia. Lokalbefolkningen - stammar som förtryckts, mördats och försatts på flykt - tänker inte längre spela efter den vite mannens regler. Det är dags för dem att ta saken i egna händer. Dags att göra uppror.

Scampata per miracolo a una vile aggressione che è costata la vita al marito, la giovane archeologa anglo-egiziana Royan Al Simma decide di onorare la promessa che gli ha fatto in punto di morte e di continuare il lavoro cui entrambi hanno dedicato tanti anni di impegno e sacrificio: decifrare gli indizi che il leggendario architetto Taita ha affidato al settimo papiro e trovare la tomba del faraone Mamose VIII e il favoloso tesoro che custodisce.

Cosa faresti se ti trovassi molto lontano da casa, in un luogo dall'aria pericolosa e poco familiare? Saresti in grado di affidarti all'istinto e sopravvivere? Be', è in questa situazione che si trova Jack Courtney. Ma Jack non sta solo cercando di sopravvivere. La sua missione è più grande ancora: salvare non soltanto se stesso, i suoi amici e i suoi genitori, ma anche il mondo intero.

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....  

The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester.

Jim Courtney is protected by all the wealth and influence that his family's successful business, the Courtney Brothers Trading Company, can provide in the Dutch-owned colonies of South Africa. Louisa Leuven is an orphaned young woman who escaped the plague only to be unjustly imprisoned and transported to the Cape. When a storm destroys her prison ship, Jim is her only hope of escape. But Louisa and Jim have greater adventures in the African wilds ahead of them.

Famed sailor Hal Courtney is now a man of land and family. But when the King orders him to sail to Madagascar and stop the pirates responsible for looting the finest trading ships of the East India Trading Company and bringing ruin to them all, Hal must travel with his three younger sons on a journey that will shape the young men forever. In this swashbuckling adventure of marauders and slave traders, love and treasure, the brothers will face duels, chases, betrayals and battles - and see their fates cast in ways they could never have imagined.

Sean Courtney, ex-guerilla fighter in the Bush War, is now a man of peace, leading hunting safaris in Zimbabwe for wealthy men. His current client is Riccardo Monterro, a strong-headed man whose beautiful, strong-minded daughter Claudia has reluctantly accompanied him on the search for the greatest of all trophies: the old bull elephant Tukutela. But the elephant, and Riccardo's obsession, will lead them over the border into a Mozambique still devastated by civil war.

1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents. Theo, wracked with guilt, seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army. Connie, believing herself abandoned by her brother, and abused and brutalised by a series of corrupt guardians, makes her way to France, where she is welcomed into high society.

Fortunes rise and fall in Wilbur Smith's tale of warring siblings and illegal diamond trading, The Diamond Hunters. The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, his sister Tracey and their estranged foster brother Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict the instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' is the old man's implacable message. And so, consumed with envy for Johnny, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal.