description: ‘Mark never heard the Mauser shot, for the bullet came ahead of the sound. There was only the massive shock in the upper part of his body, and then he was hurled backwards with a violence that drove the air from his lungs. The earth opened before him and, as he fell, there was a sensation of being engulfed in a swirling vortex of blackness and he knew for just a fleeting instant of time that he was dead.’ From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the Government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered, his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean’s son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood...
language: English
title: A Sparrow Falls
titlecomplete: A Sparrow Falls
characters: Mark Anders, Storm Courteney, Sean Courteney
genres: Fiction, Historical, Action, War, Adventure, South Africa, Thriller, Novels, Historical Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 8939
places: South Africa
series: Courtney chronological order, Courtney publication order
publisher: Macmillan