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    Fire Across the Veldt

    By John Wilcox

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    1900. South Africa. Simon Fonthill, along with his wife Alice, old friend Jenkins, and tracker Mzingeli, is travelling across the continent to Pretoria to meet with General Kitchener. When their train is derailed by hostile Boer forces the quartet are forced to continue their journey on horseback, but are quickly targeted and surrounded by Boer commando leader General de Wet and his soldiers. Fonthill must rejoin the British military and prove his ability as a commander, as he leads the battle to find and capture the elusive Boer leaders.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllison & Busby
    Release dateApr 29, 2013
    ISBN9780749013486
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    Fire Across the Veldt
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    John Wilcox

    After a number of years working as a journalist, John Wilcox was lured into industry. In the mid-nineties he sold his company in order to devote himself to his first love, writing. His Simon Fonthill novels have been published to high acclaim and he has also published two works of non-fiction. John sadly passed away in 2018.

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      No heroic swashbuckling officers in this "up from the hawse" story of a British frigate during the Napoleonic War. Evil midshipmen and a ship's boy add to the malevolence on board as a team of "lubbers" struggles to survive. The relentless cupidity of the captain is reflected in most of the command structure in the treatment of the newly pressed men. Their plight seems on the way to being resolved until a final act of treachery from the captain.