The Sunbird

An action-packed archaeological adventure from global bestseller Wilbur Smith

"You should know of the legend. At a time when the rocks were soft and the air was misty, there was an abomination and an evil in this place which was put down by our ancestors. They placed a death curse upon these hills and commanded that this evil be cleaned from the earth and from the minds of men, forever." A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs. Soon, a whispered curse and a chance encounter with a local tribe lead him to discover much more than city foundations. The curse, it seems, is real, and will link Ben, his oldest friend, and the woman they both love with a forgotten leader from two thousand years ago, in a city of glory and honour that subsequently disappeared without a trace. But what happened to that ancient civilisation? And what is it that connects that lost empire to Ben, and the violent dangers he must face in the present day?

Author: Wilbur Smith
Publisher: Zaffre
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 625
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781499860245
ISBN10: 1499860242
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Romance | Action & Adventure

About the Author
Wilbur Smith (Author)
Wilbur Smith is a worldwide phenomenon. His readership has built up over fifty-five years of writing.
Born in Central Africa in 1933, W ilbur became a full-time w riter in 1964 follow ing the success of When the Lion Feeds, and has since published over forty global bestsellers, including the Courtney Series, the Ballantyne Series, the Egyptian Series, the Hector Cross Series and many successful standalone novels, all meticulously researched on his numerous expeditions worldwide.
The establishment of the W ilbur & Niso Smith Foundation in 2015 cemented W ilbur's passion for empowering writers, promoting literacy and advancing adventure writing as a genre. The foundation's flagship programme is the W ilbur Smith Adventure W riting Prize.

For all the latest information on W ilbur visit w w w .w ilbursmithbooks.com or facebook.com/WilburSmith

Mark Chadbourn (Author)
Mark Chadbourn is a Sunday Times bestselling author of historical fiction novels about the Anglo-Saxon warrior Hereward, published under his pseudonym James Wilde. His Age of Misrule books, under his own name, have been translated into many languages. As a screenw riter, he's written for the BBC and is currently developing series for Lionsgate and several of the streaming netw orks. He began his career as a journalist reporting from the world's hotspots.