A Ballantyne Novel Series Book 4 (which includes a first time Courtney)
Narrator Stephen Thorne

It is 1884, and in the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling
Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitates a bloody rebellion and Holy War.
The charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or 'Expected One', has gathered
his forces of Arab warlords in preparation for a siege on the city of Khartoum.
The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to
attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the city. British
trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum
under the orders of the infamously iron-willed General Charles George Gordon.
It is here that he meets skilled soldier and swordsman Captain Penrod Ballantyne
of the 10th Hussars and the British Consul, David Benbrook, as well as Benbrook.s
three beautiful daughters. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the Arabs.
fierce and merciless siege these three powerful men must fight to survive.

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