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Informationen zum Autor 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 other titles include the successful The Courtneys and The Ballantynes series, and Those in Peril and Vicious Circle , featuring security operative Hector Cross. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages. Klappentext At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia stake their claims and stock their farms in the land they have carved as their own. With them rides Ralph Ballantyne, a man whose ambition and sense of destiny make him at once his country's greatest servant and betrayer. But in the hills, the Matabele Indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion that will scar their opponents for ever - and etch the same tragic legacy for generations to come . . . The third of the four Ballantyne novels, The Angels Weep centres around two warring families, mirroring the conflict of two nations, to come full circle. 'A thundering good read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books' Irish Times www.wilbursmithbooks.com facebook.com/WilburSmith Vorwort The third novel in the classic Ballantyne series Zusammenfassung The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa. At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they have carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar the opponents for ever - and etch for them the same tragic legacy for generations to come . . . 'Raw experience, grim realism, history and romance welded with mystery and the bewilderment of life itself' Library Journal The dramatic story of the Ballantynes concludes in The Leopard Hunts in Darkness. ...
