title: Power of the Sword (Courtney Family Adventures)
author:  Wilbur Smith 
description: ... a writer who ranks among the top three in the world in combing action, a venture and a sense of tough terrain to produce superbly readable books. <i>Georg Thaw, The Mirror</i>
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  Wilbur Smith - The Power of the Sword
  
  
  
  
  
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  Halfbrothers and blood enemies Manfred de la Rey and Shasa Courtney, the sons
  of Centaine de Thiry-Courtney, are irrevocably caught up in an age-old and
  savage war to seize the sword of power in their land. The Power of the Sword
  follows them through two decades of South African history in an epic story of
  life-long love and hate, of rivalry and revenge, of winners and losers in a
  deadly struggle where only the ruthless survive.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  WILBUR SMITH
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Power of the Sword
  
  
  
  
  
  If I would have given way to an arbitrary way, for to have all Laws chang’d
  according to the Power of the Sword, I needed not to have come here. King
  Charles I of England.
  
  
  
  
  
  Speech on the scaffold, 30 January 1649.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Power of the Sword
  
  
  
  
  
  The fog smothered the ocean, muting all colour and sound.
  
  
  
  
  
  It undulated and seethed as the first eddy of the morning breeze washed in
  towards the land. The trawler lay in the fog three m