This novel continues a saga of two families whose lives and ambitions affected the destinies of both Boer and Uitlander in South Africa, which the author first featured in "The White Locusts". The novels are set around the time of the founding of Johannesburg when fortunes were to be made. The author has written "The Assassin" and "The Return", which won the Republic Prize for English Prose.
- ISBN10 0450484874
- ISBN13 9780450484872
- Publish Date 1 December 1988 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Imprint New English Library Ltd
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English