Once again in The Angels Weep Wilbur Smith shows his astounding mastery of the novel of action, adventure and romance.

Dreams of Empire, desire for land and its hidden mineral wealth and for power over a proud and warlike people, such were the forces that drove Englishmen in Queen Victoria’s last years to thrust deep into an untamed continent and found a new dominion. With those Pioneers rode Ralph Ballantyne, a man whose ambition and sense of destiny made him at once his leader’s greatest servant and bretrayer.

From the last years of the nineteenth century this broad novel sweeps through to the present day when the confrontation of two families, mirroring the conflict of two nations, comes full circle.