Assegai читать онлайн

Скачать книгу Assegai

6lib.ru - Электронная Библиотека
Название книги: Assegai
Автор(ы): Wilbur Smith
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Assegai-155605.html

This book is for my wifeMOKHINISOwho is the best thingthat has ever happened to me
AUGUST 9, 1906, was the fourth anniversary of the coronation of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India. Coincidentally it was also the nineteenth birthday of one of His Majesty’s loyal subjects, Second Lieutenant Leon Courtney of C Company, 3rd Battalion 1st Regiment, The King’s African Rifles, or the KAR, as it was more familiarly known. Leon was spending his birthday hunting Nandi rebels along the escarpment of the Great Rift Valley in the far interior of that jewel of the Empire, British East Africa.The Nandi were a belligerent people much given to insurrection against authority. They had been in sporadic rebellion for the last ten years, ever since their paramount witch doctor and diviner had prophesied that a great black snake would wind through their tribal lands belching fire and smoke and bringing death and disaster to the tribe. When the British colonial administration began laying the trac
1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 804 805
Навигация с клавиатуры: следующая страница - или пробел, предыдущая -
Тёмный фон Светлый фон

Загрузка

Загрузка ...