- Hardcover: 451 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; First Canadian Edition edition (April 1 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771081030
- ISBN-13: 978-0771081033
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,925,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
In his latest novel of Africa, Smith ( The Diamond Hunters ) sets a fast-paced melodrama of greed and political corruption against the stunning, indisputably commanding backdrop of a rain forest. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and African ecologist Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of South African government-protected ivory, in the process brutally killing Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong's childhood friend, and his family. Tracing the smuggling operation to its highest source, Armstrong comes up against a sadistic Chinese diplomat and his profoundly wealthy clan, an unscrupulous entrepreneur expatriate from India, a knighted British tycoon, assorted thugs and a torture-crazed leopard guarding a warehouse. Armstrong agrees to film a PR piece for a tyrant who has just taken over a small African nation and, with money supplied by Armstrong's enemies, is despoiling the rain forest and enslaving members of certain tribes. Some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
A dashing producer of TV documentaries battles to save his beloved Africa from callous international multimillionaires and home-grown villainous politicians--in a free-standing adventure from the author of the Africa-based Courtney sagas (Golden Fox, A Time to Die, etc.) and others. Smith's trademark big-hunter thrills, toned down to accommodate 90's sensibilities, keep things hopping for Rhodesian- born David Armstrong as he first documents Zimbabwe's thoughtful elephant management--and then avenges the death of Zimbabwe's best elephant-manager at the hands of ruthless ivory poachers. Armstrong, a one-time soldier who now turns out PBS-style nature films, just misses the slaughter of old colleague Johnny Nzou and family, but quickly deduces that Taiwan's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ning Cheng Gong, and his avaricious subcontinental ivory-agent, Chetti Singh, are the monsters behind the murders and the heist of a fortune in elephant teeth. Vowing to send Ning and Singh to their reward, Armstrong returns to London, where he picks up the backing of a bent billionaire and the assistance of a very capable, very randy camera person, meets a lovely scholar of Pygmy life, and then heads again to Africa. The grand confrontation with Singh and Ning takes place in Ubomo, a semi-democracy that has just been taken over by a rapacious army officer. Ubomo is also the home of the pretty Pygmy scholar. Humorless and politically only partially correct, but who cares? The point of a big African adventure is big adventure with big animals and big scenery, and that's all here. Smith knows the scene. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Hardcover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
the best one yet,
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This review is from: Elephant Song (Paperback)
I loved this book best of all . Very easy read and an awesome story. He is by far the best storyteller of all times.
4.0 out of 5 stars
NOT a Story about Elephants and/or Ivories,
By APRICOT "ryoko" (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Elephant Song (Mass Market Paperback)
Fast-paced, easy to read, action packed and very thrilling. Highly enjoyable, but I'm a little disappointed. From the title and the back cover explanation, I expected it to be a story about elephants protection and/or ivory smuggling. It is NOT. Ivory smuggling starts the battle between the hero and the villains, but only the start. Soon later, the story develops into a battle over a fictitious small African country and completely aparts from ivories. A little disappointing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Elephant Song (Mass Market Paperback)
Another great book by W. Smith. Never a dull moment. Great heroes, and villians you love to hate.
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