A Falcon Flies: The Ballantyne Series 1

ISBN-13: 9781785766725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 672 str.

Wilbur Smith

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From bestselling author Wilbur Smith, the first book in the epic Ballantyne Series

She heard another movement pass behind her turned shoulder, a whisper of sound, yet so chilling that she felt all power of movement drained from her legs. He was here, very close in the blackness, toying with her, cruel as a cat. He had smelt her out. Now he crouched over her ready to strike and she could only wait.A mission of duty. A quest for love. Dr Robyn Ballantyne has always worked hard for what she wants. Coming home to Africa after twenty years, she fears there are only three men who may still stand in her way:THE BROTHERZouga is the only family she's known for much of her life. Yet she and the celebrated soldier will never quite see eye to eye . . .THE CAPTAINCodrington, ambitious British naval officer, wants to give her a perfect life. Could she ever be tamed enough to fit his idea of perfection?THE TRADERMungo St John, the notorious American merchant, repels her with his slave trading. But Robyn cannot forget what once passed between them.As her adventures begin, Robyn must make decisions that will shape the future for all of them . . .The first book in the epic Ballantyne series

O autorze

Wilbur Smith is a global phenomenon: a distinguished author with a large and established readership built up over fifty-five years of writing, with sales of over 130 million novels worldwide.
Born in Central Africa in 1933, Wilbur became a full-time writer in 1964 following the success of When the Lion Feeds , and has since published forty-one global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books have now been translated into twenty-six languages.
The establishment of the Wilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented Wilbur's passion for empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
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