SYNOPSIS

Ron Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr. Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay. Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people --- for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wilbur Smith was born in Central Africa in 1933. He was educated at Michaelhouse and Rhodes University. He became a full-time writer in 1964 after the successful publication of When the Lion Feeds, and has written thirty novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide. His books are now translated into twenty-six languages.