Nemesis
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Paris, 1794. The Terror has swept the city, and a young man named Paul Courtney watches from the crowd as the condemned are led to the guillotine. Among them is his mother, Constance. As he witnesses her execution, he resolves to stay alive whatever it costs, a promise he made to her. He enlists in Napoleon's army and is carried off to Egypt, where a world at war means that danger may come from anyone around him. Cape Town, 1806. Adam Courtney has built his life around the navy and the long shadow of his father, Admiral Robert Courtney. When he returns to Nativity Bay, he finds the family homestead ruined and his relatives dead. His father hands him the family's treasured heirloom, the Neptune sword, and makes him swear on its blade that he will not rest until justice is done. Adam's pursuit takes him from Cape Town to Calcutta in a fight to restore the family's honour, and he begins to suspect that the enemy he is hunting is closer than he imagined. Nemesis draws together the separate threads of the Courtney family's story in a new historical epic. It is part of the long-running Courtney saga by Wilbur Smith, whose fiction is known for its adventure and its African settings.
ISBN: 9781838779559
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