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      When the Lion Feeds

      by Wilbur Smith
      Published
      Jan 1964
      Main Genre
      Action Adventure Action & Adventure
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      544
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      The Courtneys of Africa Book 1

      About This Book

      Sean Courtney is as big and bold and dangerous as Africa itself. His farming days halted by the threat of Zulu spears, Sean flings himself wholeheartedly into a life crowded with passion and violence -- the massacre at Isandhlwana, the heroism of Rorke' Drift, the feverish excitements of the gold rush, the perils of the jungle ...

      Desired by his brother's wife, hungered after by the voluptuous Candy, loved by impish red-haired Katrina, Sean challenges fate to make a dream come true ...

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