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JAMES A. MICHENER The Eagle and the Raven THE
EAGLE Santa Anna A soldier from his teens, a
battle-hardened campaigner and general by the age of twenty-eight, his
courage, genius and reckless cruelty made him the Napoleon of the West
and eleven-times President of Mexico. AND THE RAVEN
Sam Houston Renegade, frontiersman and champion of the Chero-
kees, he emigrated to the Mexican state of Texas to lead the revolution of
1836 and distinguish himself as its President and Governor and finally as
a US Senator. ADVERSARIES FOR FORTY-TWO TEMPESTUOUS YEARS, THEY
WOULD MEET ONLY ONCE - AT THE HISTORIC BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
JAMES A. MICHENER Journey SHIP'S IN WITH
A TON OF, SOLID GOLD ON BOARDI
This was the headline that flashed around the world and precipitated the
frenzied Klondike Gold Rush in 189"17. in London, Lord Evelyn Luton
is the veteran explorer whose imagination is fired by an expedition to the
high Arctic in the footsteps of those other intrepid English- men who
had so bravely sought the fabled North West Passage some fifty years
before. He persuades three young men and his trusty Irish gamekeeper to
assemble his team. An Englishman to the core, Luton makes one chal-
lenging and ultimately disastrous condition: the party must reach the
Yukon without setting foot on Ameri- can soil. Instead, they travel down
the Athabasca and MacKenzie rivers into the most inhospitable climate
and landscape imaginable. 'A first rate adventure thriller... This
novel is itself a ton of gold.' Daily Mail
JAMES A. MICHENER Caribbean The Caribbean must
be the most colourful backdrop for any work of fiction in the great
Michener tradition. From Barbados to YucatAn, it is the magnificent
Carib- bean Sea itself which helps shape the rich and turbulent
history of the chain of beautiful islands in its embrace. James Michener
traces the history of the archipelago from the time of the Arawak and
Carib Indians from which it takes its name to the Rastafarians, Cuban
immigrants and innumerable tourists of the present day. He directs an
extravaganza with actors as diverse and lively as any in his fiction -
Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, Horatio Nelson, Toussaint
L'Ouverture, the pirate Henry Morgan, despotic Governor Eyre of
Jamaica and revolutionary Fidel Castro. Woven be- tween their lives are
those of a cast of slaves, settlers, pirates, planters, buccaneers and
rebels. The Caribbean is a hurricane of a novel. WILBUR SMITH
Men of Men 'Zouga never saw the command, probably the toe of
her boot on the far side of Shooting Star's heaving chest; he had
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certainly not expected a show horse to have learned the low tricks of a
polo pony. Shooting Star's huge sweat-streaked shoulder crashed into Tom,
taking him in the short ribs with a force that drove the air out of
him in a belching grunt, and as he was spun aside Tom chopped desperately
to keep from falling, twisting and dropping to his knees, his nose on the
ground, too tired and taken too unawares to meet the power of that
ferocious barge.' It is the age of empire, of blood and conquest, of
bound- less excitement and possibility. Striding in the footsteps of
the pioneers is Zouga Ballantyne. His dream begins in the danger and
drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of
Matabeleland - but not before a king and a proud warrior nation has paid
the price of history ...
WILBUR SMITH Cry Wolf 'it was only then that
Jake realized that he still carried a full bottle of Scrubbs Ammonia in
his hand. The lion came bounding swiftly through the shallow stlagnant
pool towards him. Despite the wounds, it flowed with lithe and sinuous
menace. It was so dose that he could see each stiff white whisker in the
curled upper lip and hear the rattle of air in its throat. He let it come
on, for to turn and run was suicide. At the last moment he reared back
like a baseball pitcher and hurled the bottle.' Jake Barton is an
American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a
quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now,
as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two
adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery
reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a
beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a
batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom
... MORRIS WEST McCreary Moves In It had started a
lifetime agd in an airless hotel room in Djakarta. He was sick, broke and
out of a job. His only real talent was plugging holes in the ground. And
suddenly there was someone prepared to gamble on him.
Rubensohn. 'Bring me in a well, McCrearyhe had said. 'And I will
show You how to multiply moneyl' Rubensohn. With wealth, a beautiful
woman - and the power to break a dozen men in as many minutes.
'You pay the piper, you name the song'. McCreary had said. Yet within
24 hours a policeman was dead, and - with a clever piece of crude stage
management - he the prime suspectl But a man can feel the hook in
his mouth once too often. He'd do his job. He'd watch and
manoeuvre until he had Rubensohn where he wanted - looking down a gun
barrel and squealing for mercy. Then he would take the money, take
the girl. And runi
MORRIS WEST The Naked Country Mundaru had
killed the white man's animal. Mundaru had thrown the first spear into the
side of the great bull. And now he was pursuing the white man to kill
and conceal him. if he killed the white man, there was death for
them all. The death that threatened them must be sung into the body of
Mundaru. Mundaru must be ritually slain. Dillon, with the Aborigine's
barb buried deep in his shoulder, knew that his survival lay in his own
hands. Yet if he lived through this ordeal, could he survive the shock
of financial ruin and the loss of his wife? Mary, insistent that she join
the policeman in the search for her husband, now had visions of him
spread- eagled in the sun, the life bleeding out of him. And she was
bitterly ashamed of wanting the other man. Neil Adams tried to view the
situation with profes- sional detachment. Did he want to find the other
man alive? Or could he live with the lonely burden of guilt? Under
the blanket sky, the drama played out before them ... MORRIS
WEST Lazarus As open-heart surgery confronts the iron-fisted
Pope, his life flashes before him with chilling clarity. Leo, in
reforming the church, has created a waste- land. And enemies within his
own ranks. Warned that the operation is the nearest that one can come
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to being reborn, he vows that should he survive, he, the man who created
the repression, would also destroy it. However, a mysterious
terrorist group, the Sword of Islam, determine to execute the Pontiff at
his most vulnerable. The plot widens to engulf his surgeon Salviati,
Jew- ish, brilliant and a healer of all creeds, his beautiful
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