Nemesis

Name: Nemesis
Rating: 4.4 (8754 reviews)

by Wilbur Smith Book 8 in the Birds of Prey Sequence series.

First published 2023

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Paris in 1794 and the Cape in 1806. Paul Courtney witnesses his mother’s execution during the Reign of Terror and joins the army that will carry Napoleon’s ambitions into Egypt. Adam Courtney, meanwhile, serves at sea under the reputation of his admiral father. Each setting represents a different stage of the revolutionary and Napoleonic transformation: political terror in France, imperial campaigning in Egypt and British expansion at the Cape.

After the destruction of the Courtney home in southern Africa, Adam begins a pursuit across Cape Town and the Indian Ocean. The two narratives connect revolutionary France, Napoleonic warfare and Britain’s seizure of the Cape. The pursuit across these theatres connects the fall of one family home to the larger contest for sea routes, colonies and control of the Indian Ocean.