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Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings. Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. He is rescued by an old friend, who is now in the Italian army and offered the chance to join the military efforts. Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade ... With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another – against all the odds?

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'No one does adventure quite like Smith.' -- Daily Mirror 'Wilbur Smith ... writes as forcefully as his tough characters act.' -- Evening Standard

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Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. After the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds in 1964 he became a full-time writer, and has since written 30 novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books have been translated into twenty-six different languages Elliot Chapman trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he received Carleton Hobbs training for radio, with a focus on acting for stage and screen. His talents for voiceover have seen him narrate several audiobooks, including Wilbur Smith’s The Ballantyne Series and Ken MacLeod’s Lightspeed trilogy. He has also voiced Doctor Who's companion, Ben Jackson, for audio series Doctor Who – The Early Adventures and The Companion Chronicles.

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