Bettie's Books

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Wilbur Smith - The Dark of the Sun - Unabridged
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Read By: Simon Vance


Duration: 09:13

Description

Bruce Curry sets out with some mercenaries to relieve a mining town in the heart of the African jungle. On the nightmare journey he falls passionately in love with Shermaine. In an atmosphere of pervading evil he fights to preserve this love - and stay alive.

BALLANTYNE:

4* A Falcon Flies (1980)
4* Men of Men
3* The Angels Weep
2* The Leopard Hunts in Darkness
The Triumph of the Sun (Ballantyne #5 = Courtney #12)

ANCIENT EGYPT

4* - River God (1993)
4* - The Seventh Scroll (1995)
4* - Warlock (2001)
3* - The Quest (2007)

STAND ALONES:

3* - The Diamond Hunters (1971)
4* - The Sunbird (1972)
3* - Golden Fox (1990)
3* - Birds of Prey (1997)
3* - Blue Horizon (2003)
1* - Those in Peril (2011)
3* - The Eye of the Tiger
3* - Hungry as the Sea
3* - The Dark of the Sun

TBR Busting 2013

Bruce Curry sets out with a trainload of mercenaries to relieve a mining town besieged by rebels in the heart of the African jungle. The journey, turns into a nightmare, softened only by Shermaine, a Belgian girl he meets and with whom he falls in love.

But love is no elixir. In fact, it considerably complicates Curry's struggle to carry out his mission and stay alive. He finds himself buffeted by emotions he thought would never visit him again, and he notes with wry amusement his own distraction.