01305nam a22001937a 4500 20230809113933.0 230809b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780330201803 AL eng 23 823.914 SMID Wilbur Smith 129798 Dark of the sun London Pan Books 1998 282p. PB 18x11cm. 'The bend in the road rushed towards them, just a few more seconds. Then, with a succession of jarring crashes that shook the whole body of the car, a burst of fire hit them from behind. The windscreen starred into a sheet of opaque diamond lacework, the dashboard clock exploded powdering Shermaine's hair with particles of glass, two bullets tore through the seat ripping out the stuffing like the entrails of a wounded animal.'Bruce Curry is the leader of a mercenary band with the dubious support of three white officers. His mission is to relieve a mining town cut off by the fighting and to retrieve a priceless consignment of diamonds. Ranged against his ill-disciplined unit are bandits, guerrillas and hostile tribes that infest the land. But there is another, even deadlier enemy - one of his own men . . . English literatures English fiction 129799 ddc BK 228264 228264 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAENG SACPG SACPG 2023-08-05 0 823.914 SMID PG024362 2023-08-09 00:00:00 2023-08-09 DB