title: THE TRIUMPH OF THE SUN
author: Wilbur Smith
description: "Fans will not be disappointed."--"Booklist <br />""Triumph of the Sun is everything [Smith's] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure...chalk up another winner."--"Times Record News (Wichita Falls, TX) <br />"Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark...a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful."<br />--"Booklist<br />"<br />"Nobody does it better."--"Kirkus Reviews<br />"<br />"Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)<br /><br />" Fans will not be disappointed." --"Booklist" <br />" "Triumph of the Sun" is everything [Smith' s] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure... chalk up another winner." -- "Times Record News" (Wichita Falls, TX) <br />" Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark... a story that is-- like the Nile itself-- swift and powerful." <br />--"Booklist"<br />""<br />" Nobody does it better." -- "Kirkus Reviews"<br />""<br />" Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable." -- Sunday Telegraph (UK)<br /><br />"Fans will not be disappointed."--"Booklist" <br />""Triumph of the Sun" is everything [Smith's] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure chalk up another winner."--"Times Record News" (Wichita Falls, TX) <br />"Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful."<br />--"Booklist"<br />""<br />"Nobody does it better."--"Kirkus Reviews"<br />""<br />"Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)<br /><br /><br />"Fans will not be disappointed."--"Booklist"<br /><br />""Triumph of the Sun" is everything [Smith's] fans have come to expect: masterful storytelling and breathtaking adventure chalk up another winner."--"Times Record News" (Wichita Falls, TX)<br /><br />"Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful."<br />--"Booklist"<br />""<br />"Nobody does it better."--"Kirkus Reviews"<br />""<br />"Wildly entertaining, compulsively readable."--Sunday Telegraph (UK)<br /><br /><br />Praise for "Triumph of the Sun" "Espionage, disguise, stabbings in the dark...a story that is--like the Nile itself--swift and powerful."<br />--"Booklist"<br />""<br />
zlib_text: Wilbur Smith - B3 The Angels Weep  
    
  PART ONE.  
    
  Three horsemen rode out from the edge of the forest with a restrained
  eagerness that not even weary weeks of constant searching could dull.  
    
  They reined in, stirrup to stirrup, and looked down into another shallow
  valley. Each stalk of the dry winter grass bore a fluffy seed-head of a lovely
  pale rose colour, and the light breeze stirred them and made them dance, so
  that the herd of sable antelope in the gut of the valley seemed to float
  belly-deep in a bank of swirling pink mist.  
    
  There was a single herd bull. He stood almost fourteen hands tall at the
  withers. His satiny back and shoulders were black as a panther's, but his
  belly and the intricate designs of his face-mask were the startling iridescent
  white of mother-of-pearl. His great ridged horns, curved like Saladin's
  scimitar, swept baIck to touch his croup, and his neck was proudly arched as
  that of a blood Arabian stallion. Long ago hunted to extinction in his forme