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Assegai

Smith, Wilbur A (author.).

Summary: "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."--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780330511063
  • ISBN: 0230529208
  • ISBN: 9780230529205
  • Physical Description: 471 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: First Edition first Printing
  • Publisher: London : Macmillan, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Maps on endpapers.
Target Audience Note:
Adult.
Subject: Adventure -- thriller
Thriller -- suspense
Fiction
Historical
Fiction -- Historical
Men's Adventure
Genre: Adventure fiction.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Adventure thrillers.
Adventure stories.

Available copies

  • 27 of 29 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sparwood Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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Sparwood Public Library FIC SMI (Text) 35172000028510 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

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