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Previously published as: A falcon flies. Robyn Ballantyne returns to Africa with her brother to search for her long-lost father.

The Van Der Byl Diamond Company has been ruled to the death by its founder, Jacob who has bequeathed the invaluable business to his son Benedict, his daughter Tracey, and unexpectedly to Johnny, his estranged foster child and his most bitter rival in diamond hunting. But the inheritance does not come from paternal love, but from inconsolable hatred. But as Tracey and a long lost love enter the fray, what unfolds under the desert sun is a violent life...

Into the wilds of Natal in the 1870s are born Sean and Garrick Courtney, twin brothers who could not be more different. Fate, war and the jealous schemes of a woman are to drive them even further apart. But as history unfolds, a continent is awakening. And on the horizon is promise.

Ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross is forced to take the law into his own hands to stop old and new enemies intent on global domination.