Ballantyne novels
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Ballantyne novels volume 1
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Thrown together on a voyage to Africa's fever-ridden shores, Dr Robyn Ballantyne and the ship's Master battle with all the fury of natural enemies. This is a saga of adventure and exploration, plotting the courage and determination of one woman amidst fierce and ruthless men.
2) Men of men
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Ballantyne novels volume 2
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In the dangerous, diamond-rich African countryside, where only the strongest and the luckiest survive, a powerful family forges its destiny. Zouga Ballantyne, whose thirst for wealth leads him to risk a fortune in the ultimate gamble. His sons, Ralph and Jordan, who seek to tame the wild continent in their own ways. And Robyn Ballantyne, the beautiful healer, forced to save the life of the man she both hates and loves in the unmerciful war for dominance...
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Ballantyne novels volume 3
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Ralph Ballantyne is following in his father Zouga's footsteps, as a hunter, gold prospector and promoter of British colonialism in Africa. But the tribes that they--and men like them--have previously exploited or butchered in the name of civilisation are rising up, and will no longer submit quietly to the greed and mindless destruction of the trespassers. Over a hundred years later, Ralph's descendants are still in Africa, in the newly named Zimbabwe,...
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Ballantyne novels volume 4
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Craig Mellow, acclaimed author but unhappy exile, seizes the chance to return to Zimbabwe when he is given a spying mission for the World Bank. Accompanied by a beautiful photographer, he finds himself caught up in a dangerous political web.
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The Courtneys meet the Ballantynes in this epic African adventure where the British are forced to intervene in a fierce rebellion. Ryder Courtney is trapped in Khartoum where he meets Captain Penrod Ballantyne against the bloody backdrop of the siege of Khatoum.
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The follow-up to The Triumph of the Sun.
Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they...
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Ballantyne novels volume prequel
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"The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Augustus Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester. Camilla,...