Legacy of War
The bestselling story of courage and bravery from global sensation author Wilbur Smith
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4.2 • 147 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King
'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times
'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' -The Times
'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror
A FAMILY IN TURMOIL. A COUNTRY IN RUINS.
The war is over, Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Former Special Operations Executive, Saffron Courtney, and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. . .
Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial empire is feeling the stirrings of rebellion. As the situation becomes violent, and the Courtney family home is under threat, Saffron's father, Leon Courtney, finds himself caught between two powerful sides - and a battle for the freedom of a country.
A Courtney Series adventure - Book 4 in the Assegai sequence.
Legacy of War is a nail-biting story of courage, bravery, rebellion and war from Wilbur Smith, one of the best and most beloved authors of the century. Don't miss Crossfire, available now, and Flashpoint, coming autumn 2026.
'Legacy of War' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/e 18-04-2021.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the early 1950s, bestseller Smith's exciting sequel to 2018's Courtney's War (also coauthored with Churchill) takes Saffron Courtney Meerbach, who served as a Special Operations Executive agent during WWII, and her husband, German war ace Gerhard Meerbach, whom she helped rescue from a concentration camp, to Kenya, where they settle into their own house on her parents' hundred-thousand-acre estate. Life for the couple is paradise, but the Mau Mau uprising looms, and the rebels against colonial oppression soon set their sights on the Courtneys and their estate. Meanwhile, Gerhard's Nazi war criminal brother, Konrad von Meerbach, has made off with the family money to an unknown destination. Saffron decides that Konrad must be hunted down and made to answer for his crimes. As usual, Smith juggles the multiple plotlines with aplomb, and the action never lets up. His legions of fans are sure to be pleased with this page-turning adventure thriller in the classic tradition.
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Another typical Wilbur smith. Easy reading
Thanks for your continued entertainment
Nearly 60 and I am a huge fan, have been since I was a teenager, over the years I have drifted in and out of reading what with family and career but now i intend to take advantage of soft copy books and fill in the gaps till I have read them all
Thank you so much for the entertainment
Always an amazing adventure
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