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The Sound of Thunder

Wilbur Smith

  • 444 pages · about 7 hours
  • First published 1966
  • 5 editions
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1 About this book

The Sound of Thunder continues the Courtney saga where When the Lion Feeds left off. Sean Courtney is off to fight the burghers in the Boer War -- first in harrowing missions on the front lines for the British Guides, then as the leader of commandos designed to fight the Boers on their own terms -- guerilla combat in the field.

The peace that follows find Sean with hopes of marriage and settling down to farming. But the hatred borne by his twin brother will not allow a peaceful life. Garry, who has been forced to live in the shadow of his twin's superiority since childhood, has vowed to pay him back for the wrongs done him.

  • South African fiction
  • Adventure
  • South africa

2 About Wilbur Smith

1933–2021

Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer. He went on to write three long chronicles of the South African experience, which became best-sellers.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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