THE TRIUMPH OF THE SUN.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around,colour pictorial/graphic design illustrated dw/dj with gilt and b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned,but generally bright and clean and without foxing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with an impressed outline of bird sat on an exotic flower to front board's lower,right-hand corner; with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-500pp [paginated] includes 3pp glossary at rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a prose extract (from Winston S. Churchill's 'The River War',1905),and detailed+numbered, Khartum & Omdurman town b/w map frntis with table.See also rja505714 and rja520815 for a similar,but author SIGNED examples.
In the Sudan,decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader,The Mahdi or "Expected One".The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country.
Along with hundreds of others,British trader and businessman,Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum.It is here that he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne of the 10th Hussars,as well as the British Consul,David Benbrook and his three beautiful daughters.
Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum,in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat,these three powerful men fight to survive.
Rich with vibrant historical detail and infused with his inimitable powers of storytelling,"The Triumph Of The Sun" is Wilbur Smith at his masterful best.
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