Warrior King : THE BRAND-NEW COURTNEY SERIES EPIC FOR 2024

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Author: Smith, Wilbur Historical adventurePublished on 9 May 2024 by Zaffre in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 400 pages242 x 162 x 35 | 624g The new Courtney Series epic A BATTLE FO R HONOUR AGAINST A POWERFUL NEW ENEMYSouth Africa, 1820When Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay, she is stunned to find two survivors: a badly scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the morning mist alone, refusing to take the child - Harry - with him, Ann is left with no choice but to raise the boy as her own.After two years of disaster and hardship in the African interior, desperation drives Ann and Harry back into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped from Robben Island and is determined to seek his fortune in Nativity Bay, the hidden harbour that his father told him about when he was a boy.But it isnt long before Ralph, Ann and their fellow settlers learn that Nativity Bay now lies on the borders of a mighty kingdom, where the warrior king Shaka rules. With no means of making their way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph is forced into a bargain with the Zulu king which will lead him to confront the past that he has been running from for his entire life.Praise for Wilbur SmithA master storyteller Sunday TimesNo one does adventure quite like Smith Daily MirrorBest historical novelist Stephen King Show more