Simon Fonthill Series Book 07 (2010)
Narrator Graham Padden

This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill brilliantly
depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in the 'Scramble for
Africa'. 1893. In the African Cape, recovering from the loss of their child,
ex-captain and one-time subaltern Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice find
themselves on tribal land and at the mercy of Matabele warriors. While being
held under the orders of the Matabele king, Lobengula, Fonthill becomes aware
of a Portuguese plot to undermine a valuable mining treaty between Lobengula
and the richest man in Africa, Cecil Rhodes. When friction develops between
Rhodes and the Matabele tribesmen Fonthill is forced to take sides and,
together with comrade '352' Jenkins and Alice, he becomes embroiled in one
of the bloodiest battles in British history, the Shangani River massacre.

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