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For Harry Fletcher, life as a fishing charter operator on the Indian Ocean island of St Mary's Island is good – until suddenly men from the world of violence which he had forsaken so long before arrive to plunge him once more into a deadly game...
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Assegai
Assegai is on the New York Times best-seller list, reached #1 on the UK Sunday Times best-seller list a week after publication, and topped the Argentinian, Australian, Canadian, Italian and South African best-seller lists!
My latest novel, Assegai, was published in Italy on 5 March, in South Africa on 12 March, in Australia and New Zealand on 1 April, in the United Kingdom and Hungary on 3 April, in Argentina on 2 May, in the United States and Canada on 12 May, in Turkey on 14 May, in Norway on 20 May, in France on 18 June, in Denmark on 25 June and in the Netherlands on 29 June 2009.
Assegai will be published in Finland on 21 September 2009.
In 1913 Leon Courtney, an ex-soldier turned professional hunter in British East Africa, guides rich and powerful men from America and Europe on big game safaris in the territories of theMasai tribe. Leon has developed a special relationship with the Masai.
One of Leon's clients is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German industrialist whose company builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. Leon is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne (from The Triumph of the Sun) who is commander of the British forces in East Africa to gather information from Von Meerbach. Instead Leon falls desperately in love with Von Meerbach's beautiful and enigmatic mistress, Eva Von Wellberg.
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I Leon stumbles on a plot by Count Von Meerbach to raise a rebellion against Britain on the side of Germany amongst the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War in South Africa. He finds himself left alone to frustrate Von Meerbach's design. Then Eva Von Wellberg returns to Africa with her master and Leon finds out who and what she really is behind the mask...
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St. Martin's Press is offering United States residents a free e-book edition of The Triumph of the Sun, in Adobe Acrobat format. Set in 1884 in the Sudan, British trader Ryder Courtney, Captain Penrod Ballantyne and British Consul David Benbrook are trapped in the capital city of Khartoum under an Arab siege...
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