By Wilbur A. Smith
Internationally bestselling writer Wilbur Smith returns with a heart-racing tale of kin secrets and techniques, greed, and revenge.
Hector pass left in the back of a occupation of excessive hazards and battle while he married his loved Hazel Bannock. yet after his new lifestyles is tragically upended, he acknowledges the ruthless hand of an outdated enemy in the back of the assault.
made up our minds to struggle again, Hector attracts jointly a staff of his so much unswerving associates and fellow warriors to seek down those that pursue him and his household. For he and Hazel have a toddler, a important daughter, whom he'll visit the ends of the earth to protect.
Soon, in spite of the fact that, Hector learns that the hazard comes not only from his previous enemies, but in addition Hazel’s. Brutal figures from her family’s past—thought lengthy gone—are returning, with an schedule so sinister that Hector realizes he's dealing with a brand new form of adversary. One whose lethal tools and darkish secrets and techniques will lead Hector to a sequence of crimes so stunning that he has no selection yet to settle the ranking.
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The thought made him laugh. It was not, Sharpe suspected, the anticipation of excitement that had brought Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill to this state of near joviality, but rather the thought that a battle would cause casualties and misery, and misery was the Sergeant's delight. He liked to see men cowed and frightened, for that made them biddable, and Sergeant Hakeswill was always at his happiest when he was in control of unhappy men. The three officers had stopped their horses at the head of the column and now used telescopes to inspect the distant ridge which was clouded by a ragged fringe of smoke left from the last discharge of the enemy cannon.
See it? ' His face twitched again as he released the stock. ' 'Mad as a hare, ' Tom Garrard muttered. ' Hakeswill whipped around to stare at Sharpe, but Sharpe was so palpably still and staring mutely ahead that his innocence was indisputable. Hakeswill paced back down the Light Company. 'I have watched men die, better men than any of you pieces of scum, proper men, but God has spared me! So you do what I says, boys, or else you'll be carrion. ' He abruptly thrust the musket back into Sharpe's hands.
Instead he leaned forward in his saddle with one hand clasped over the tiger hilt of his curved sabre as he watched his infantry march on the infidel British. The sword was slung on a silken sash that crossed the pale yellow silk jacket that the Tippoo wore above chintz trousers. His turban was of red silk and pinned with a gold badge showing a tiger's mask. ' Above it, pinned to the turban's brief white plume and brilliant in the day's sunlight, there glittered a ruby the size of a pigeon's egg.