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A Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. [1] The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s inspired Smith to research and write a book set in historical Rhodesia. He originally planned it as one novel but it ended up as a trilogy. [2] The book was the best selling novel published in ...
The books, and the period they cover, are: A Falcon Flies aka Flight of the Falcon (1980) - 1860s; Men of Men (1981) - 1870s-1890s [2] The Angels Weep (1982) - first part 1890s, second part 1977; The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984) - 1980s; The Triumph of the Sun (2005) - Courtney and Ballantyne - 1880s; King of Kings (2019) - Courtney and ...
Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
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A Sparrow Falls is a 1977 novel by Wilbur Smith. It is one of the Courtney Novels and is set during and after World War I. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the most popular of Smith's novels in the US to date although it still did not sell as well as in Europe and Africa.
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The book ends with Sean's brother Garrick forgiving him and Dirk running away, promising to ruin the Courtneys. A Sparrow Falls is the concluding part of Sean Courtney's life story. It begins with a young soldier named Mark Anders being sent out to kill a German sniper in the First World War .