📖 Power of the Sword

In an epic that stretches from the end of one world to the next, New York Times bestselling author Wilbur Smith chronicles the fate of a warring family - and a continent at war with itself... Between the hunter and the prey, Shasa 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 Shasa's half-brother, Manfred, had been trained by his renegade father to be a hunter - of lions, and of men. The victim and the survivor, as the two boys became men, they took on the extraordinary powers of each parent: Shasa, 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... Is a saga of betrayal, violence, and treasure... Now, the future of a young nation is being forged amidst a clash of civilizations, ideals, and...