Book description
Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons is urgently summoned
to the Cape Colony when he learns that the Zulu warrior King Shaka is
about to wage war.
Soon Hervey, his old friend Eyre Somervile and their escort of
dragoons and mounted rifles are riding north. When they arrive at
Shaka's kraal it is a horrifying place. The sentinels at the gates are
corpses, and it quickly becomes apparent that he has slaughtered
thousands of his subjects - warriors and women alike.
When Shaka is killed by his own people, and the region plunged into
civil war, Hervey and his men find themselves in the midst of terrible
danger.
Yet worse is to come. Separated from his troop, Hervey must lead
Shaka's queen across a hostile land where sanctuary has never seemed
further away ...
Allan Mallinson
is a former infantry and cavalry officer of thirty-five years' service.
He is also the author of
Light Dragoons
, a history of four regiments of British Cavalry, one of which he
commanded, and which has recently been revised and updated. As well as
writing on defense matters for
The Times
and formerly for the
Daily Telegraph
, he is a regular reviewer for
The Times
, the
Spectator
and the
Literary Review.
