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One of the most formidable fighters in the world, ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross has survived explosive tangles with depraved enemies - warlords, pirates, and arms dealers - from the Middle East to the heart of Africa. Now Cross must take the law into his own hands once again to stop a vengeful old enemy who has resurfaced - and hunt down a deadly new nemesis in pursuit of global domination.

Dr Daniel Armstrong, ecologist and documentary maker, has dedicated his life to protecting Africa's animals and rain forests. But when a gang of poachers murders his childhood friend, Chief Warden of the National Park, and steals the government-protected ivory stores, Daniel's quest of passion becomes one of revenge....

Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time and the elements....

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.

Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom....

Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that roam the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men....

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.

Jack and his friends, Amelia and Xander, are in Zanzibar diving for lost treasure to support Jack's mother's coral protection project. Going further than usual on their last day, their dive boat is lured into a trap and captured by Somali pirates. Determined that his mother shouldn't pay a ransom for their release, Jack won't give up his attempts to escape. Transferred to a militia training camp for boy soldiers, the trio's only hope is the resourceful Somali boy called Mo who befriends them.

In Gold Mine, an exciting adventure from Wilbur Smith, ambitious and hard-living mining expert Rod Ironsides knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of a dangerous plan which includes the destruction of the very mine itself....

In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror....

The Syrian plane disintegrated, evaporating in a gush of silvery smoke, rent through with bright white lightning, and the ejecting pilot's body was blown clear of the fuselage. For an instant it was outlined ahead of David's screen, cruciform in shape with arms and legs thrown wide, the helmet still on the head, and the clothing ballooning in the rush of air.

In this third high-octane instalment, Jack and his friends are skiing in the Alps when Jack is engulfed by an avalanche.

Rob Courtney ha trascorso tutta la vita in un tranquillo avamposto commerciale sulla costa orientale dell'Africa, sognando una vita avventurosa in mare. Quando suo nonno Jim Courtney muore e il misterioso Capitano Cornish fa visita al forte, Rob coglie l'occasione al volo e si imbarca clandestinamente sulla nave di Cornish diretta in Inghilterra. Ma una volta giunto a Londra, Rob si lascia sedurre dal fascino della capitale inglese e ben presto si ritrova disperato e senza un soldo.

Da Hal Courtney staevner ud med to skibe fra England for at tilintetgøre de fraekke pirater, der ombringer East India Company's skibe i begyndelsen af 1700-tallet, aner han ikke, at det skal blive den mest skaebnesvangre rejse, han nogen sinde har foretaget. Han har sine tre sønner, Tom, Guy og Dorian, med om bord. Men snart må han sende Guy videre med et af skibene, for at han kan eskortere familien Beatty til Bombay.

Pericolosi intrighi internazionali in missioni all’ultimo respiro: il primo romanzo della serie di Hector Cross, in una nuova traduzione. Quando scopre che la figlia Cayla è stata rapita da un gruppo affiliato ad al-Qa‘ida al largo delle coste della Somalia, Hazel Bannock, ricchissima proprietaria di una potente compagnia petrolifera, mette in campo tutte le proprie risorse per salvarla.

Uniti dalla nascita. Divisi dal sangue. Il romanzo d'esordio di Wilbur Smith, il primo grande successo che ha segnato la nascita di una leggenda, in una nuova traduzione. Natal, 1876. Un crudele incidente segna per sempre le vite di Sean e Garrick Courtney, due gemelli che fino ad allora avevano condiviso sogni e spericolate avventure. Da quel momento il loro legame cambia, si trasforma in un rapporto di amore e odio.

Shasa Courtney är arvtagare till släkten Courtneys stora förmögenhet, men vad han önskar sig mer än allt annat är ett enat Sydafrika. Nationalistpartiets framgångar är på väg att driva landets befolkning in i ett fullskaligt inbördeskrig. Anledningen stavas Apartheid. Vem är egentligen för - och vem är emot? Efter att länge ha engagerat sig i oppositionen övertalas en motvillig Shasa att gå med i det regerande nationalistiska partiet. Bakom bevekandet står hans egen halvbror, Manfred de la Rey.

Da quando è stato accolto nella famiglia van der Byl, Johnny Lance ha sempre fatto il possibile per compiacere il vecchio Jacobus e i suoi fratelli adottivi, Benedict, che è sempre stato invidioso di lui e dei suoi successi, e la bellissima Tracey, con cui ha un rapporto speciale. Finché un terribile equivoco non ha messo fine alla spensieratezza dell'infanzia: Johnny è stato mandato in collegio, e da allora il Vecchio ha cercato per decenni di distruggerlo.

Den irländsk-amerikanske tjuvjägaren Flynn Patrick O'Flynns jakt på elfenben har fört honom till djungeln i Tyska Östafrika. Kring Rufijiflodens delta har han även stött på sin ärkefiende. Det tyska befälet Herman Fleischer gör sitt bästa för att komma åt honom, men än så länge har O'Flynn lyckats hålla sig undan. Hans tur kan dock vara på väg att vända. Inte långt efter att O'Flynn tagit sig an den unge Sebastian Oldsmith som lärling, börjar världen att förändras.

La storia di Sean, figlio di Shasa Courtney e Tara Malcomess e pronipote dell'indimenticabile protagonista de Il destino del leone, sullo sfondo di un Sudafrica dilaniato da guerre fratricide. Uno dei più bei romanzi di Wilbur Smith, in una nuova traduzione. Dopo aver combattuto con gli Scout di Ballantyne durante la guerra civile in Rhodesia, Sean Courtney è diventato un cacciatore professionista.