Book description
'I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in
size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in
those frantic seconds. I saw the hog's snout with the two slotted
nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the
broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner's blade of the
dorsal fin.' Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed
and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game
in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world
of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions,
involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an
ancient wreck. 'Wilbur Smith is one of the benchmarks against whom
others are compared' The Times
Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at
Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in
1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds,
and has since written over thirty novels, all meticulously researched
on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated
into twenty-six languages.
Find out more about Wilbur Smith by looking at his own author
website, www. wilbursmithbooks. com
