num_pages: 871
description: Across the goldfields of South Africa to the 1930s Olympics in Berlin, this is an astonishing novel of adventure from one of the world’s most celebrated novelistsThey 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.
language: English
title: The Power of the Sword
titlecomplete: The Power of the Sword
characters: Centaine de Thiry Courteney, Manfred De La Rey, Shasa Courteney
genres: Fiction, Historical, Action, Adventure, South Africa, Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 6239
places: South Africa
series: Courtney chronological order, Courtney publication order
publisher: Pan MacMillan