Elephant Song
A thrilling novel from the master of adventure, Wilbur Smith
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4.0 • 4 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
A thrilling novel of love and the fight against corruption, from global sensation Wilbur Smith.
'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
Who sings for the lost country?
Dr Daniel Armstrong, ecologist and documentary maker, has dedicated his life to protecting Africa's animals and rainforests. But when a gang of poachers murders his childhood friend, Chief Warden of the National Park, and steals the government-protected ivory stores, Daniel's quest of passion becomes one of revenge.
In London, fiery anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is locked in a confrontation with the most powerful conglomerate in the city. She has been studying and living with the Bambuti people, whose way of life is being destroyed by the greed of men on the other side of the world.
As Daniel calls on his expert knowledge and insider connections to investigate who ordered the savage killing, he will discover something much worse than simple murder. As his path crosses with Kelly the two join forces in a battle to save a country devastated by corruption. Can they save the place and people they love from such a powerful and destructive force?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his latest novel of Africa, Smith ( The Diamond Hunters ) sets a fast-paced melodrama of greed and political corruption against the stunning, indisputably commanding backdrop of a rain forest. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and African ecologist Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of South African government-protected ivory, in the process brutally killing Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong's childhood friend, and his family. Tracing the smuggling operation to its highest source, Armstrong comes up against a sadistic Chinese diplomat and his profoundly wealthy clan, an unscrupulous entrepreneur expatriate from India, a knighted British tycoon, assorted thugs and a torture-crazed leopard guarding a warehouse. Armstrong agrees to film a PR piece for a tyrant who has just taken over a small African nation and, with money supplied by Armstrong's enemies, is despoiling the rain forest and enslaving members of certain tribes. Some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers.
