An action-packed thriller featuring a mismatched band of mercenaries, from global bestseller Wilbur Smith.
A gendarme snatched up his rifle from where it lay at his feet; Bruce saw him elbow his way towards the side of the truck to begin firing; he was working the slide to lever a round into the breech. Mwembe! Bruce shouted the gendarme s name, but his voice could not penetrate the uproar. In two seconds the whole situation would dissolve into a pandemonium of tracer and bazooka fire.
Hired to kill. Fighting to live. Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission, or so he thinks: lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. It soon becomes clear that the town s diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission he s been sent on. Although Curry soon finds something more valuable than diamonds, and will do anything to protect it. But there s one thing Curry hadn t counted on - that his most deadly enemies may not be the ones he s facing down the barrel of a gun, but the ones who are right beside him...