In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War two freebooting adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic escapade gives way to chilling horror...
- ISBN10 1429997982
- ISBN13 9781429997980
- Publish Date 29 August 2006 (first published 1 November 1976)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint St. Martin's Press
- Format eBook
- Language English