The Burning Shore

Part of the 'Courtney' series

This first volume of the second Courtney sequence, The Burning Shore is a marvellous epic of courage and love that moves from the blazing skies of war torn France to the secret heart of the African wilderness.

It is the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune – a monumental journey of mystery and discovery.

Once again in The Burning Shore Wilbur Smith proves that he is the master storyteller. Whether his subject is love or war, whether he is describing the conflict of men and machines above the trenches of 1917 or the onslaught of a ravenous man-eating lion, he writes with such authority and hypnotic attention to detail that the reader is swept away on the torrent of the narrative.

Magnificently exciting, full of vivid action, passion and mystery, The Burning Shore is certainly one of the richest and most entertaining adventure stories of our time.

Reviews

'Wilbur Smith is an adept at thrilling and harrowing scenes, researches his facts, gets it all too horribly spot-on.' – The Sunday Times
Wilbur Smith ... writes as forcefully as his tough characters act.'
– Evening Standard
'A natural storyteller who moves confidently and often splendidly in his period and sustains a flow of convincing incident without repeating his excitements' – The Scotsman
' Wilbur has arguably the best sense of place of any adventure writer since John Buchan.' – The Guardian

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