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Birds of Prey
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Birds of Prey Paperback - 2003

by Wilbur Smith


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The year is 1667. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal are on patrol in their fighting caravel off the Agulhas Cape of South Africa. They are lying in wait for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. so begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps them from the settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north - at a time when international maritime law permitted acts of piracy, rape, and murder otherwise punishable by death. Wilbur Smith introduces a generation of the indomitable Courtneys and thrillingly re-creates their part in the struggle for supremacy and riches on the high seas.
From the very first pages, Wilbur Smith spins a colorful and exciting tale, crackling with tension and drama, that builds and builds to a stunning climax. Packed with vivid descriptive passages of the open seas, breathless pacing, and an extraordinary cast of characters, "Birds of Prey" is a masterpiece from a storyteller at the height of his powers.

First line

The boy clutched at the rim of the canvas bucket in which he crouched sixty feet above the deck as the ship went about.

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  • Title Birds of Prey
  • Author Wilbur Smith
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York
  • Date May 16, 2003
  • ISBN 9780312317119 / 0312317115
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.1 x 1.48 in (24.13 x 15.49 x 3.76 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Sea stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Wilbur Smith is the bestselling author of twenty-eight novels that have been translated into twenty-six languages and have sold over 110 million copies.
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