Cry Wolf

by WilburSmith (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $3.27

  'It was only then that Jake realized that he still carried a full bottle of Scrubbs Ammonia in his hand. The lion came bounding swiftly through the shallow stagnant pool towards him. Despite the wounds, it flowed with lithe and sinuous menace. It was so close that he could see each stuff white whisker in the curled upper lip and hear the rattle of air in its throat. He let it come on, for to turn and run was suicide. At the last moment he reared back like a baseball pitcher and hurled the bottle.' Jake Barton is an American engineer, Gareth Swales a stylish Englishman with a nose for a quick deal. Both have always moved from one escapade to another. Now, as Mussolini prepares to annihilate the people of Ethiopia, the two adventurers come up against Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful but fiery reporter bent on espousing their cause. Striking a bargain with a beleaguered Ethiopian prince, the trio dares to run gauntlet, guns and a batch of run-down armoured cars in a final, desperate gamble for freedom...

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.27

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $15.54

  Two lone adventurers, one Texan, one English, strike a deal with an Ethiopian prince to deliver a consignment of ancient weapons to his beleaguered countrymen. A beautiful young American journalist who has pledged her life to the people's cause insists on travelling with them. Together, the three find themselves swept irresistibly from a daring adventure into a violent confrontation with death among the high mountains of Ethiopia. 'All the ingredients of the first-class action-adventure story' Sunday Telegraph