Power of the Sword is the story of an intense sibling rivalry in war-torn South Africa from bestselling author, Wilbur Smith.
They were half-brothers, raised in different worlds in the same country, and destined to be lifelong enemies. Manfred De La Ray and Shasa Courtney, sons of Centaine de Thiry, were blood enemies from their very first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africa's history through two decades, they found themselves adversaries in an age-old war of savagery to seize the sword of power in their land. Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the highland to the secret citadels of Afrikaaner power, from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler's Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia.
- ISBN10 0312940815
- ISBN13 9780312940812
- Publish Date 6 February 2007 (first published 28 April 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 871
- Language English