Language: English

HIS014000  –  History / Europe / Germany

FIC002000  –  Fiction / Action & Adventure

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1897, a year prior to the outbreak of the Boer War. Jager and Tanen, two brothers of German descent living in South Africa are despatched on a dangerous secret mission by the President of the Transvaal Republic. Their assignment is to smuggle a vital shipment of weapons and munitions purchased from the Krupp and Mauser Werks safely out of Germany and back to the Transvaal. Where they are desperately needed to help defend the Transvaal against a clique of ruthless and cunning English businessmen backed by the geopolitical ambitions of the British Empire who aim to invade the Transvaal to gain control over its vast and priceless diamond and gold deposits.

Barth Jules Sussman

Over the past several decades Barth Jules Sussman has lived and worked as an author and screenwriter in London, Paris, Rome, Cannes, Hollywood, Ibiza and Florida. He is the author of such historical novels as Shanghai and The Crooked Cross (New American Library/Signet Books); the western thriller L'Homme au Boulet Rouge (editions Gallimard-Paris) - (title in Germany- Der Mann mit der roten Kugel); the screwball black comedy novel Save Me Cosmos Black; Muggy The Happy Pug children's picture book series (Hachette Jeunesse-Paris) as well as the Muggy CD-ROM coloring book (Muggy Press) which were created along with his late wife Jen Sussman. Barth Jules Sussman has written over a twenty original screenplays, including The Stranger & The Gunfighter (AKA Blood Money) starring Lee Van Cleef and Night Games directed by Roger Vadim; The Zaharoff Dossier; Charleston & Savannah. A number of Barth Jules Sussman's scripts have been either purchased or produced by Columbia Pictures;Avco-Embassy; Dino DeLaurentiis; Carlo Ponti; Sir Run Run Shaw and Raymond Chow amongst others.