In a towering nbsp; tale of lovers, family, enemies, and honor, Wilbur Smith chronicles a journey into the heart of a continent--where only the bold would survive "" nbsp;"A MAN HAD DISAPPEARED IN AFRICAIn 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper--in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this moment: to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness. nbsp;A TRIAL LED TO AN ANCIENT CITY, UNTOLD WONDERS, AND HORRORTraveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman--into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city. nbsp;AND THE ONLY WAY OUT WILL BE THROUGH A HEART OF DARKNESSUncovering their father's trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out--through pitched battles on land and on sea and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts nbsp;"An epic... Smith joins the ranks of one of the grand masters of twentieth-century novels. "--"Tulsa" World