Warrior King: THE BESTSELLING EPIC FROM THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH

Name: Warrior King: THE BESTSELLING EPIC FROM THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH
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Rating: 4.4 (7906 reviews)
Author: Wilbur Smith

by Wilbur Smith

Historical Fiction

4.4 (7,906)

4.4 stars from 7,906 reviews. One of the highest rated Historical Fiction books we track.

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Perfect for you if...

You love sweeping historical adventures set in colonial Africa with complex characters caught between civilisations.
You're already a Wilbur Smith fan or enjoy authors like Bernard Cornwell who blend personal stories with epic historical stakes.
You want a gripping page-turner that doesn't shy away from the moral complexities of frontier life and cultural collision.

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You prefer intimate character studies over large-scale historical plots and adventure sequences.
You're looking for a standalone novel rather than book 7 in a long-running series.
You want contemporary settings or are uncomfortable with historical fiction that deals with colonial-era conflicts.

About this book

South Africa, 1820. Ann Waite discovers a battered longboat washed ashore in Algoa Bay containing two survivors: a scarred sailor and a young boy named Harry. When the man leaves alone, Ann raises Harry as her own. After two years of hardship in the African interior, Ann and Harry encounter the mysterious shipwrecked man again. He is Ralph Courtney, recently escaped from Robben Island, who seeks his fortune in Nativity Bay, a hidden harbour his father described to him in childhood. Ralph, Ann, and their fellow settlers soon discover that Nativity Bay borders a powerful kingdom ruled by the warrior king Shaka. Trapped with no way back to Algoa Bay, Ralph enters into a bargain with the Zulu king that forces him to confront his past. Book 7 in the Birds of Prey sequence of the Courtney series.

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Currently around #36K in the Kindle store — a steady mid-list seller. Climbing the charts — 72% improvement recently.

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Currently 4.4★ from 7,906 reviews

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