The Courtneys Of Africa Series book 02
Narrator Tim Pigott-Smith

'The game was war. The prize was a land. The penalty of defeat was death...'
The Sound of Thunder is an epic of the Anglo-Boer War and the peace which
followed.
It is a sequel to his best-selling When the Lion Feeds, has the same
tremendously dramatic quality, and takes up the story of Sean (the lion of
the earlier title), who joins up to fight the burghers. Brilliantly Wilbur
Smith describes the progress of the War through Sean's own actions, first
in harrowing missions in the front lines for the British Guides, then as
the leader of a commando designed to fight the Boers on their own terms .
guerrilla combat in the veld. The peace which follows finds Sean with
hopes of marriage, settling down at last to develop new land by planting
wattle. But it is at this point in the novel that the hatred borne him by
his twin-brother Garrick really comes into the open: Garrick, who has been
forced to live In the shadow of his twin's superiority since childhood,
and who has vowed to pay him back for it. Sean is very much the big figure
of the novel, but other characters grip the imagination as strongly. Ruth,
for instance, beautiful and self-willed, who can draw on hidden depths of
savagery to protect her own: or Dirk. Sean's young son by his first wife,
whose warped character gives his father endless cause for anxiety and self-
questioning. This is a novel on the grand scale, packed with movement and
life, which brilliantly evokes the hazardous world of the pioneers who
founded a nation.

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