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The Eye of the Tiger
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 403 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20092004-09-24
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The deep. The deadly. The damned... For a thousand years, an unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean, hidden by swift blue currents, guarded by deadly coral reefs, and even deadlier school of man-eating great white sharks. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is now being pulled into a murderous mystery by men willing to kill and a beautiful woman willing to lie for what rests far beneath the sea. Now, Harry has no choice but to enter full bore into an international battle to raise an extraordinary object from the deep. Because possessing this treasure isn't just about getting rich — it's about staying alive...
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Gold Mine
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 264 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20092011-08-21
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North of Johannesburg, five companies share the Kitchenerville fields, furiously blasting and digging deep into the earth. For some men, gold mining is a way of life and death. For some it's just a business. For one man, it's the most dangerous game of all... Rod Ironsides makes love to his boss's wife and drives his miners faster and harder than anyone has ever dared. A few weeks ago, Ironsides had a passion for golf and one-night stands. Now, he has been handed a prize and a curse: to blast through rock and reap a fortune or be destroyed. From a split-second, oxygen-sucking explosion to a looming underground wall of water, there are a dozen ways Rod can fail. But his passion and fury won't let him back down from a conspiracy he cannot see: men who want to turn his mine into a death trap for the bloodiest pay-day of all...
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The Angels Weep
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 672 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20092009-09-20
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On a continent of breathtaking beauty and bitter suffering, two vastly different cultures clashed, mingled, and recoiled. Here, amidst mist-shrouded mountains and gold-studded plateaus, ancient tribesmen lived close to the earth, as white men dug fortunes out from beneath them and laid plans for a new civilization. Out of Southern Africa the enigmatic Cecil Rhodes built an empire in the late 1800s and attracted the brightest and bravest of a generation — including a remarkable far-flung family named Ballantyne. But for the natives, another day was dawning: a day of retribution... From a courageous woman doctor to a fierce, one-eyed slave trader turned soldier, the whites of Africa were buffeted by two horrific waves of war. And just when a bloody peace seemed possible, the seeds of future turmoil were sown…
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The Diamond Hunters
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20082007-10-17
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The Van Der Byl Diamond Company, willed by its founder to his son Benedict, daughter Tracey and estranged foster-child Johnny Lance, turns out to be a bequest not of love, but of hatred. For it is couched in such terms as to offer Benedict an instrument of destruction of his bitterest rival. 'Destroy Johnny' was the old man's implacable message to his son, and, obsessively jealous of his foster-brother, Benedict sets out in ruthless pursuit of this goal. In a desperate bid to support Johnny, Tracey acquires for him the concession in the diamond-rich seabed round the coral islands of Thunderbolt and Suicide off the savage South West African coast, and Johnny throws all his resources into the construction of a vessel that will recover the stones from the ocean floor and repair his fortune at last. But Benedict, already involved in illegal diamond-dealing as a sideline, seizes this chance to attack his rival and, with a network of accomplices and some ingenious electronic tampering, plots to syphon off the diamonds. Johnny will not only be ruined by his liabilities, he will also be a laughing stock. However, Benedict's obsessive jealousy is his undoing. He cannot resist stripping his rival of his beautiful but bitchy wife Ruby as well, and when he then discards her, she takes her revenge, precipitating a climax of murder and destruction that consumes Benedict at last. Narrated with Wilbur Smith's irresistible driving thrust, this is a tale of brotherly hatred, redeemed only by the deepening love between Johnny and Tracey. It is set in London, Cape Town, on the thunderous seas around the ocean diamond fields and ends in a final confrontation between Johnny and Benedict in the blistering hyena-infested desert.
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Hungry as the Sea
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1999 Страниц: 501 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20092001-10-07
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Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor's edge between human courage and nature's wrath. InHungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life — and for redemption. Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent storm — to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg succeeds, and climbs back into the international shipping game, that's when the real danger will begin... From the power of a relentless ocean to the hunger of men to survive upon her, this is a towering novel of adventure, love and the daring of the human soul.
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Power of the Sword
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 880 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20122009-10-27
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Sasha Courtney was groomed by his French-born mother to take control of the Courtney Mining and Finance Company, whose font of wealth was sown deep beneath African soil. But Sasha’s brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter — of lions, and of men. As the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Sasha, a man in tune with his continent and its people; Manfred who, like his father, was willing to shape his world with a gun. So when the winds of World War II reached Africa, each brother chose a side… Now, the future of a young nation is being forged amidst a clash of civilizations, ideals, and blood feuds. And as Sasha and Manfred rise to power, a land of beauty and suffering will be remade — for better or for worse — in an image of their own
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Shout at the Devil
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092008-05-16
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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...
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The Sunbird
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 615 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092004-05-06
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Dr. Ben Kazin is a brilliant acrheologist. Louren Sturvesant is rich, impulsive, and physically imposing, everything Ben is not. Now, the to men--friends, competitors and partner--are searching for the legendary lost city of Opet, built by an Egyptian culture that reached Africa two thousand years ago, then vanished completely. For Ben, the expedition is a chance to prove a controversial thesis. For Louren, it is a chance to spend milions — and make it all back in gold and glory. But what awaits them is an astounding discovery, a seige of terror, and an act of betrayal that will tear the two men apart and bind them together forever... Hidden beneath water, jungle, and blood-red cliffs is a lost world where two men and a beautiful woman were caught in a furious battle of passions two thousands years ago, but which has begun once again....
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The Quest
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20102009-12-07
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Wilbur Smith returns with the eagerly awaited sequel to his thrilling Egyptian series. Following on from River God, The Seventh Scroll and Warlock, The Quest continues the story of the Warlock, Taita, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods and a master of magic and the supernatural. Egypt is struck by a series of terrible plagues that cripple the Kingdom, and then the ultimate disaster follows. The Nile fails. The waters that nourish and sustain the land dry up. Something catastrophic is taking place in the distant and totally unexplored depths of Africa from where the mighty river springs. In desperation Pharoah sends for Taita, the only man who might be able to win through to the source of the Nile and discover the cause of all their woes. None of them can have any idea of what a terrible enemy lies in ambush for The Warlock in those mysterious lands at the end of their world.
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Eagle in the Sky
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092008-07-04
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A thrilling, cross-continent adventure, this classic by «New York Times» bestselling author Smith tells the story of combat flying in Israel and violence in the African bush. But above all, it tells a compelling love story.
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Cry Wolf
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2001 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20092004-02-19
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The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The «Wolf of Rome», Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored cars and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...
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The Eye of the Tiger
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 1992 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20091993-12-16
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This is an Intermediate Level story in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles — some original and some simplified — from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.
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A Falcon Flies
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 695 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20112008-07-21
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In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper — in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman — into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city. Uncovering their father's trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out — through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts...
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Men of Men
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 710 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092007-12-30
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It was called The Devils's Own: a steep scar in the African earth, around which men toiled with picks, shovels, and dreams of the milky treasures that would become prized, polished diamonds. In this demonic race, native tribesmen became miners. Sometimes they became thieves. And then they became rebels. Zouga Ballantyne, an African-born Englishman, sees the Devil's Own mine as his ticket to the North: a realm of waterfalls and fertile plains, teeming wildlife, and seeded fields of gold. But what happens in the diamond mines of the fledgling Boer Free State sets the course for Ballantyne and a cast of comrades, enemies, and lovers — and for the continent itself. From the visions of imperialists to the fury between a father and a son, from the lengths a man will go for a woman and a woman for her convictions, a tragic clash of generations and civilizations was shaking 19th century Africa, where some warriors fought for their gods — and others for the men who came before them...
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Rage
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 887 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20112010-09-12
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In the second half of the twentieth century, the future bears down on Africa — fueled by the sins of the past and the blood feuds of nations, tribes, and families. For the Courtney family, who have known this continent from the depths of its gold mines to the pinnacle of political power, a time of reckoning is at hand. Shasa Courtney has lived, fought and loved amongst Afrikaners, Englishmen, and natives. His mother is by his side but the rest of the world around him is exploding. Even his family harbors secrets more dangerous than his own worst enemies. Now, a continent is convulsed. Streets teem with protestors. Desperate and devious men forge volatile alliances. And Shasa faces shocking revelations amongst traitors, fugitives, and heroes — leading a beloved country into the flames of civil war...
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Wild Justice
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 декабря 20092008-08-27
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Beautiful women bent on hijacking a 747 begin a tense tale of intrigue, betrayal and violent action, from the bestselling author Wilbur Smith.
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Assegai
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2010 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20112012-10-20
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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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When the Lion Feeds
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 22 мая 20092010-03-24
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He began life at his twin brother’s side, soon running wild on his father’s ranch on the edge of Africa. But violence, desire, and fate sent Sean Courtney into exile—where he would fight and love his way to extraordinary success and heartbreaking failure... In a place called The Ridge of White Waters, Sean made a life-long friendship, mined a fortune of gold, and met his own demons. Then an act of cunning betrayal struck—and ignited a new adventure to a new frontier. From facing the murderous charge of a towering bull elephant to watching men die unspeakable deaths, Sean fought new enemies, forged new allies—and dreamed of establishing a family on a farm of his own. But the young man who had lived by his courage, sweat, and blood was about to discover that the past still had its claws in him…
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The Sound of Thunder
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20092010-04-29
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The year is 1899. The British Empire is at the height of its power. But in South Africa, proud Dutch colonists defy the Queen and her army—and a lush, wild world is torn apart by guns, spears, and swords. Sean Courtney had been tragically separated from his family, but the Boer War has brought him back to his homeland—and into the sights of his enemy’s guns. It has also returned him to Ruth Friedman, the only woman Sean can love, even though he shouldn’t. As Sean’s loyalties—to nation, man, and blood—are tested, a saga of duty and betrayal unfolds....
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Blue Horizon
Автор: Wilbur Smith Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2004 Страниц: 800 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20092009-08-23
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With adventure in their blood, Jim and Mansur Courtney seek to carve out a life for themselves and their families in the unexplored splendor of Africa. But laying claim to a land devastated by war yields unexpected risks. No sooner does their journey unfold than their destiny changes with the daring rescue of a woman imprisoned on a doomed convict ship. Blazing a thousand-mile trail, they escape across a savage world of warring native tribes, bounty hunters, and predators driven by greed and lust. Now the Courtney's true quest begins-a life-and-death pursuit of a dream at any cost...
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