Writer: Wilbur Smith
Genre: Fiction
Sean and Garrick Courtney are twin brothers but they couldn't be more different. Sean is the proverbial trouble maker while Garry always seems to follow Sean. On a childhood expedition Sean accidently shoots Garrick in the leg owing to which is leg is amputated. The memory of the event haunts Sean throughout the book. The kids grow up and are soon enlisted to join a war. Both of them survive the war but lose their brotherly love for each other all thanks to Garry's new wife Anna.
Sean embarks on a wild journey to wilderness and manages to strike rich with a gold mine in Johannesburg . Just when he thought he was powerful enough, he loses all his fortune to a stupid move in the exchange. Again he decides to leave the place and travel somewhere else taking with him his loyal friend Duff and his Zulu servants. He loses Duff to a disease and marries a Boer woman, Katrina who gives birth to Dirk.
The book ends in melancholy after Katrina commits suicide for reasons unknown to Sean. He again sets off to wilderness to handle the excruciating pain.
Genre: Fiction
Sean and Garrick Courtney are twin brothers but they couldn't be more different. Sean is the proverbial trouble maker while Garry always seems to follow Sean. On a childhood expedition Sean accidently shoots Garrick in the leg owing to which is leg is amputated. The memory of the event haunts Sean throughout the book. The kids grow up and are soon enlisted to join a war. Both of them survive the war but lose their brotherly love for each other all thanks to Garry's new wife Anna.
Sean embarks on a wild journey to wilderness and manages to strike rich with a gold mine in Johannesburg . Just when he thought he was powerful enough, he loses all his fortune to a stupid move in the exchange. Again he decides to leave the place and travel somewhere else taking with him his loyal friend Duff and his Zulu servants. He loses Duff to a disease and marries a Boer woman, Katrina who gives birth to Dirk.
The book ends in melancholy after Katrina commits suicide for reasons unknown to Sean. He again sets off to wilderness to handle the excruciating pain.
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