Wilbur Smith: The Dark of The Sun

From Wilbur Smith comes The Dark of The Sun, available as a complete audiobook for Literature & Fiction listeners.

The windscreen starred into a sheet of opaque diamond lacework, the dashboard clock exploded powdering Shermaine’s hair with particles of glass, two bullets tore through the seat ripping out the stuffing like the entrails of a wounded animal.’   Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that roam the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy – one of his own men….  ©2018 Wilbur Smith (P)2019 Audible, Ltd The inner conflicts of a mismatched band of mercenaries threatens to derail an important mission in Wilbur Smith’s dramatic adventure novel, The shadowed of the Sun , set during the Congo Crisis.   ‘The bend in the road rushed towards them, just a few more seconds. Then, with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car, a burst of fire hit them from behind.

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