Wilbur Smith · 2009 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 2009 Courtney saga. In British East Africa on the eve of the Great War, soldier-turned-hunter Leon Courtney guides wealthy clients across the game lands - until his spymaster uncle sets him to shadow a German industrialist, Otto von Meerbach. Leon's safaris become a cover for espionage, leading him deep into German East Africa and the shores of Lake Tanganyika.

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   Nairobi

   Cashiered from the King's African Rifles, Leon Courtney reinvents himself in Nairobi as a big-game hunter - and is recruited by his uncle, the spymaster Penrod Ballantyne, into the shadow war gathering over British East Africa.

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   The game lands

   Leon leads the wealthy German industrialist Otto von Meerbach on a grand safari across the Rift Valley game lands, using the hunt as cover to spy on a man secretly arming the German colony for the coming war.

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   German East Africa

   The trail carries Leon deep into German East Africa, toward von Meerbach's stronghold on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where the industrialist's war machine - and a reckoning between hunter and quarry - awaits.