Cry wolf
By: Wilbur Smith
Edition: St. Martins paperbacks ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780312982584
Copyright date: 1976
Subjects: Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936; Fiction
Description: The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome," Italy's army under Mussolini, is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure. The mission seems simple: Deliver four ancient refurbished armored crs and Vicky Camberwell, an American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realize that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains, where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them. . .