Wilbur Smith · 1968 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 1968 adventure. On the eve of the First World War, the roguish ivory poacher Flynn O'Flynn and the green young Englishman Sebastian Oldsmith raid the elephant herds of German East Africa. When war comes, the British enlist the pair for a desperate mission - to hunt down and destroy a German battle-cruiser hidden deep in the maze of the Rufiji Delta.

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   Rovuma River

   From a base on the Rovuma, the ivory poacher Flynn O'Flynn and his partner Sebastian slip across the frontier into German East Africa to raid the elephant herds - and earn the fury of the German commissioner Fleischer.

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   Kilwa

   Their poaching forays carry them up the coast past the old Arab port of Kilwa and into the bush of German East Africa, a running feud of ambush and reprisal with Fleischer's askaris.

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   Mafia Island

   The outbreak of the Great War turns the two rogues from hunted criminals into agents of the British Crown, and the hunt shifts to the waters off Mafia Island, where the Royal Navy blockades a wounded German cruiser.

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   Rufiji Delta

   In the tangled swamps of the Rufiji Delta a crippled German battle-cruiser lies hidden, repairing to break out and menace the seas. Flynn and Sebastian are sent into the maze of channels to find her - and blow her apart.