An action-crammed story
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Harry Fletcher lives a quiet life on St Mary's Island and he takes charters on board "Wave Dancer" for fishing and diving. Angelo and Chubby are his two assistants. But the inoffensive Harry once used to be called Harry Bruce and he used to practice the art of violence and sudden death in Malaya, Vietnam, the Congo and Biatra. Furthermore he used to lift complete collections of gold coins in the British Museum and cut diamonds in Amsterdam and to transport hundreds of millions of dollars worth of gold bars from Switzerland to Rome.
One day three suspicious looking men, Charley Anderson, Mike Guthric and Jimmy North, want to hire Harry's boat claiming that they want "to do a little exploring" and that they need a full array of scuba diving and salvage equipment. Then they hand Harry a chart showing that they are interested in an area thirty miles north of the mouth of the Rovuma River. What are these men after? When they recognise Harry as "the gold heist from Rome", he senses that the stakes are high and that he is sitting in the game with "big boys" once again... One of the best adventure novel by Wilbur Smith.
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what a great intro to wilbur smith
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a truly great book, ive enjoyed his work ever since just the style of writing pity the title is lost in sly stallones work
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One of his best
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Some of my favourite books are Wilbur Smith's earlier works that is why I am finding time to read them again and this is one that has not jaded with time. This is a mystery thriller mixed with violence, horror and death. A great adventure.
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A book for anyone with taste
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This was the first book of Smiths i had read, and i found it impossible to put down. From the first page, the characters are made so real that you immediatly care about them, and feel the need to find out what happens. Someof the action scenes are so gripping, it feels like you are watching a great movie, and Smiths writing is so wonderfully descriptive, you can really picture the action, and sympathise with the emotions of the characters. A fantastic read.
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Rip roaring adventure on the high seas
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Harry Fletcher, a charter fisherman with a dubious past spends lazy days in St Marys skippering for rich businessmen with a taste for big game fish, his tatest charter however, is about to resurect his ugly past and thrust him and his crew into to a dangerous adventure consisting of sunken treasure, murder, action and cunning together with beautiful tropical seas. Wilbur Smiths brand of vividly descriptive storytelling always keeps me rivetted and this is no exception. If action-packed treasure seeking adventures are your thing, you'll certainly enjoy this!
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