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WILBUR SMITH

WARLOCK

MACMILLAN

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Set in Egypt and following on from River God and The Seventh Scroll, Warlock marks the return of the world's finest adventure writer.

Hidden away in the vast and forbidding deserts of North Africa, Taita has passed the years since the death of his beloved Queen Lostris in prayer and study. He has become the Warlock, wise in the lore of the ancient Gods, an adept of magic and the supernatural.

Now Taita answers the summons from the beyond. He leaves the desert vastness and returns to the world of men, to find himself plunged into a terrible conflict against the forces of evil which threaten to overwhelm the throne and the realm of Egypt, and to destroy the young prince Nefer who is the grandson of Queen Lostris.

With vivid depictions of battle and intrigue, of love and passion, with fascinating characters both good and evil, Wilbur Smith brings to life in colourful detail the world of ancient Egypt. This is a masterful feat of story telling by one of the world's best selling authors. It is Wilbur Smith at the peak of his formidable powers.

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Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University.

He became a full time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has since written twenty-seven novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.

He owns a farm and game reserve and has an abiding concern for the peoples and wildlife of his native continent, an interest strongly reflected in his novels.

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'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared'

THE TIMES


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MONSOON


'Smith is a master storyteller - Monsoon is a fantastic reading experience'

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'Tremendously enjoyable... meticulously researched, with a narrative drive as relentless as the green Atlantic rollers... one hell of a read'

DAILY MAIL


'His writing is crisp and decisive and his plots keep the reader hooked'

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