A Sparrow Falls by Wibur Smith (1977, Hardcover)

A Sparrow Falls
by Wilbur Smith
Publisher:  Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright 1977
Book Club Edition

"When I first met you, you were poor," she said quietly leaning aganst Mark Anders' shoulder, her eyes filled with the peace and wonder of it, "but now you are the richest man in the world, for you are the owner of paradise."

But, as Wilbur Smith shows in this sprawling, passionate novel set in early-twentieth-century South Africa, paradise is expensive in ways that transcend money, and once gained, difficult, dangerous, perhaps impossible, to hold.

The bond between Sean Courtney -- the famous, powerful General Courtney -- and Mark Anders -- private and expert marksman -- was sealed on the bloody battlefields of World War I.  What began in war continued in a peacetime partnership in which both men were forced to fight different but sometimes equally bloody battles in an effort to forge reality out of a dream -- to stop the encroachment of exploiters and developers upon the magnificent South African jungle.

Bitter estrangement had lost Sean Courtney his only son.  But when good fortune brought him young Mark Anders, his last years were golden indeed, and the energy and vitality that had gained him millions of pounds on the gold fields of the Witwatersrand, and influence and power in the land, drove him forward once again.

From the devastation of the trenches in northern France, through the violence of the Johannesburg strikes in the early twenties, to the serene splendors of the African wilderness, this novel vibrates with the towering personalities of two men in the relentless pursuit of justice.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover.  Pages are tanned and darkening from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Dust cover and flaps are tanned from age.  Dust cover shows a bit of edge wear and tear and creasing.

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