A Falcon Flies (Ballantyne Novels) - Softcover

In a towering tale of lovers, family, enemies, and honor, Wilbur Smith chronicles a journey into the heart of a continent--where only the bold would survive...

A MAN HAD DISAPPEARED IN AFRICA
In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.

A TRIAL LED TO AN ANCIENT CITY, UNTOLD WONDERS, AND HORROR
Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.

AND THE ONLY WAY OUT WILL BE THROUGH A HEART OF DARKNESS
Uncovering their father's trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea...and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts...

"An epic...Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels."
--Tulsa World