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ELEPHANT SONG [046-037-5.0]

By Wilbur Smith

Synopsis:

The rangers closed in firing steadily. Within minutes all the adult
animals were down. Only the calves still raced in bewildered circles,
stumbling over the bodies of the dead and dying. Six minutes after the
first shot, a silence fell over the killing ground of Long Vlei.

In the blinding light of Zimbabwe's Chiwewe National Park, Dr. Daniel
Armstrong, world-famous TV naturalist, films the slaughter of a herd of
elephant. In London, anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into
violent confrontation with the shareholders of the most powerful
conglomerate in the City of London, warning them of the destruction of
an African country. Now the time has come to act. Together, Armstrong
and Kinnear forge a passionate alliance - and begin the fight against
the forces of greed, evil and corruption, attacking a land they would
both give their lives to save. Combining breathtaking realism and the
thrilling suspense, the new adventure from the world's master
storyteller is a journey deep into the heart of a wild, magnificent
continent, threatened forever by the destructive hand of man.

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-three novels,
meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide.

He normally travels from November to February, often spending a month
skiing in Switzerland, and visiting Australia and New Zealand for sea
fishing. During his summer break, he visits environments as diverse as
Alaska and the dwindling wildernesses of the African interior. He has
an abiding concern for the peoples and wildlife of his native continent,
an interest strongly reflected in his novels.

He is married to Danielle, to whom his last nineteen books have been
dedicated.

WILBUR SMITH

The Courtneys: When the Lion Feeds

The Sound of Thunder

A Sparrow Falls

ELEPHANT