A Time to Die

Name: A Time to Die
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by Wilbur Smith Book 4 in the The Burning Shore Sequence series.

First published 1989

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Southern Africa in the late 1980s. Sean Courtney works as a professional hunter and accepts a safari for Riccardo Monterro and his daughter Claudia. The journey crosses into Mozambique as the country’s civil war disrupts the expedition. The safari enters a Mozambique devastated by civil war, where government forces, insurgents and foreign interests have turned rural communities into contested territory.

Sean is forced to use the guerrilla skills he had hoped to leave behind when clients and companions become trapped between armed factions. A personal enemy from his past turns the safari into a pursuit through a landscape shaped by war. Sean’s experience cannot restore the clear loyalties of an earlier military life, and the rescue becomes a late-Cold-War conflict in which every armed group claims a different legitimacy.