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Author:

Smith, Wilbur A.

Title:

Assegai [sound recording] / Wilbur Smith.

Format:

[sound recording] /

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

BBC Audiobooks America,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

14 sound discs (17 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

British--Africa, East--Fiction.
Hunting guides--Fiction.
Germans--Africa, East--Fiction.
Safaris--Africa, East--Fiction.
Spy stories.
Historical fiction.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Vance, Simon. nrt

Notes:

Audio recording by Macmillan Audio, produced in 2009. "Digitally Mastered"--Container. Compact disc. Read by Simon Vance.

Summary:

Leon Courtney, ladies' man and former lieutenant in the King's African Rifles, becomes a professional big game hunter and high-profile safari guide in the years leading up to WWI. On the eve of war, Leon is recruited by his uncle, commander of the British forces in East Africa, asks him to spy on his newest client, Count Otto von Meerbach, a German industrialist with a secret agenda. Courtney also begins an affair with Otto's mistress, Eva, who has a secret life of her own. Will Courtney defeat Otto's dastardly scheme and rescue Eva?

ISBN:

0792763696
9780792763697

Locations:

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)