Book description
The Angels Weep
Dreams of Empire, desire for land and its hidden mineral wealth and for power over a proud and warlike people: such were the forces that drove Englishmen in Queen Victoria’s last years to thrust deep into an untamed continent and found a new dominion.
With those Pioneers rode Ralph Ballantyne, a man whose ambition and sense of destiny made him at once his leader’s greatest servant and betrayer.
From the last years of the nineteenth century this broad novel sweeps through to the present day when the confrontation of two families, mirroring the conflict of two nations, comes full circle.
The Angels Weep is about the way the seeds of hatred sown in battles fought round issues of land and race will germinate and produce anew ugly sprouts of the same tragic stock. An exciting, colourful and moving novel in both its parts, it is the third of the Ballantyne sequence of four novels.
A Time to Die
From the master of epic storytelling comes one of his greatest adventures yet – a towering novel of high suspense, breathtaking action and stirring romance.
Set against the majesty of the African landscape, its great plains, swamplands, forests and mountains, A Time to Die is a story of courage and friendship, the thrill of the hunt, the savagery of war and the saving power of love.
Sean Courtney, professional hunter and veteran guerrilla fighter, is swept up in the savage tides of a new war. Caught between two rival armies, between his love for the beautiful woman at his side and his instincts as a trained fighter, Sean Courtney finds himself the captive of a brutal enemy from his past.
In the ordeal of danger and endurance that is to follow, Sean Courtney is thrust once more into the front line of bloody battle, every nerve and sinew tested to the limit as hunter becomes the hunted in a wilderness ravaged by war.
A Time to Die is spellbinding entertainment, sweeping the reader from the great hunting grounds of Zimbabwe to the fierce heat of the Zambezi valley and the scorched wastelands of Mozambique.
Excitement, stunning location and sheer narrative power are combined in a novel that vibrates with the author’s deep feeling for the heartbeat of the African wild.