Wilbur Smith Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Una famiglia divisa dalla guerra. Un eroe nato dalla tragedia. Un legame destinato a durare tutta la vita. 1754. Nati e cresciuti a Madras, Theo Courtney e sua sorella Connie sono sempre stati inseparabili, ma la tragica morte dei genitori li separa bruscamente. Theo, tormentato dai sensi di colpa, cerca il riscatto arruolandosi nell'esercito britannico e combattendo nella Guerra franco-indiana. Connie, convinta di essere stata abbandonata dal fratello, dopo aver subito ogni sorta di abusi e angherie da chi avrebbe dovuto proteggerla, riesce infine a fuggire in Francia e a farsi accettare nell'alta società parigina. Ma ancora una volta si ritrova alla mercé di uomini crudeli e senza scrupoli, la cui sete di potere e di gloria finisce per condurla suo malgrado sul fronte nordamericano della Guerra dei sette anni. Quando le loro strade si incontrano di nuovo, i due fratelli si rendono conto che la vendetta e la redenzione che entrambi stanno disperatamente cercando potrebbero costare loro la vita... Una nuova generazione di Courtney lotta per la libertà in un susseguirsi di dolorose tragedie e grandi passioni, atti di eroismo e orribili tradimenti, che portano il lettore nel cuore pulsante della Guerra franco-indiana.

Egypte wordt getroffen door een serie plagen die het koninkrijk grote schade toebrengen, maar de ergste moet nog komen: de Nijl houdt op met stromen. Ergens diep in het onbekende hart van Afrika, daar waar de machtige rivier zijn oorsprong vindt, moet iets catastrofaals gebeurd zijn. De farao is de wanhoop nabij en stuurt Taita eropuit de enige man die in staat is door te dringen tot de bron van de Nijl en de oorzaak van alle problemen te vinden. Maar niemand vermoedt welke vreselijke vijand The Warlock ligt op te wachten in dit mysterieuze land aan het einde van hun wereld.

L'Egypte du deuxième millénaire avant Jésus-Christ, ses pharaons qui ont fait l'histoire, ses temples majestueux, ses divinités omniprésentes dont les pouvoirs façonnent les destinées de tout un peuple, tel est le décor grandiose du nouveau récit de Wilbur Smith, le maître incontesté du roman d'aventures. [Payot.ch]

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... A MAN ON HIS OWN They couldn't be anymore different: an earnest young Englishman named Sebastian Oldsmith and an Irish American adventurer named Flynn O'Flynn who never encounters a rule he doesn't break. Fate brings them together in Zanzibar. A sadistic German turns them into allies, then into warriors. A WOMAN IN LOVE From the moment Rosa O'Flynn lays eyes on Sebastian, Rosa finds the man she would love forever—never mind what plans her father has for her. But imperialism is shaking Mozambique, where O'Flynn is the craftiest, fiercest beast in the jungle. And when Rosa and Sebastian lose what is most precious, they join a band of rogues, natives, wanderers, and hunters to start their own war against an enemy who has nothing to fear—and everything to lose... A HUNT FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY OF ALL From the sound and sight of a charging bull elephant to ships ablaze on the Indian Ocean, this is a full throttle saga of survival—against nature, man, and the devil himself...

Een gebochelde archeoloog en zijn assistente gaan samen met een vriend op zoek naar een verloren stad in Botswana. Na het vinden van enkele oude papyrusrollen ziet de archeoloog in een visioen het leven van de bewoners van deze oude stad.

It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off Southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold.

Harry Fletcher is a reformed man, and is now making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the Indian ocean. Suddenly men from his violent past overun his good intentions and involve him in a race to recover treasure from an ancient wreck.

Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom...

‘With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.’ Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country’s war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart . . .

Congo belga, anni Sessanta. Un gruppo di mercenari guidati da Bruce Curry deve trarre in salvo la popolazione di un piccolo villaggio rimasto isolato nel territorio in mano ai ribelli. Ex avvocato in fuga dal suo doloroso passato, Bruce sa bene che lo scopo della sua missione non è soltanto umanitario: in realtà nel villaggio, che fu sede dell'Union Minière, è rimasta una cassetta di diamanti che fa gola a molti. Insieme con i suoi compagni, Bruce affronterà un allucinante "viaggio all'inferno", al termine del quale, dietro la disperazione e la violenza, sembra poter rinascere un nuovo sentimento di dignità e speranza.

Avonturen in en om een goudmijn in Zuid-Afrika.

Een Amerikaanse mecanicien en een Engelse ex-officier raken door de verkoop van drie oude pantserwagens aan de Ethiopische regering betrokken bij de inval in 1933 van het Italiaanse leger in dat land.

Dallo Zimbabwe prende l'avvio un colossale safari per multimilionari. A dirigere le operazioni c'è Sean Courteney, cacciatore di professione dal passato avventuroso. Scopo del viaggio è la caccia a un grande, enigmatico, quasi simbolico elefante: Tukutela, l'"ultima preda" di un continente insanguinato da guerre civili e scontri razziali. Il gruppo però si spinge oltre la frontiera del Mozambico, dove si spara sul serio, dove l'odio tribale e la lotta politica sono esplosi, dove ogni certezza è bruciata dal fuoco delle armi. Tornare indietro, ora, significa lottare per la propria vita, mettendo da parte i sentimenti, e giocare una partita decisiva che non prevede né vincitori né vinti.

Nick went head down, finning desperately to catch the swirling body which tumbled like a leaf in high wind. He had a fleeting glimpse of Baker's face, contorted with terror and lack of breath, the glass visor of his helmet already swamping with icy water as the pressure spurted through the non-return valve. The Chief's headset microphone squealed once and then went dead as the water shorted it out.' Robbed of his wife and ousted from his huge shipping empire, Nick Berg is hell-bent on vengeance. It is the sea which gives him his opportunity. When his arch-rival's luxury liner is trapped in the tempestuous Antarctic, Nick stakes all to pit his powerful salvage tug, the Warlock, in a desperate race against time and the elements . . .

An unimaginable treasure has rested on the bottom of the Indian Ocean for centuries. Harry Fletcher, a former soldier turned fisherman, is pulled into a murderous mystery of 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 sea.