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War cry : a Courtney family novel
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- ISBN: 9780062276490
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496 pages ; 24 cm - Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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- 25 of 27 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F SMI (Text) | 35101011000994 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 April #2
The fourteenth in the Courtney family saga (it's the sequel to 2009's Assegai) is set in the decades between WWI and WWII. Saffron, the young daughter of the wealthy Leon Courtney, a businessman and landowner in Kenya (where the Courtney family has lived for more than two decades), travels to England, where she eventually meets a German man whose own family connections are threatening to tear his life apart. Gerhard Von Meerbach, unlike his wealthy family, is sympathetic to the Jewish people and despises the Nazis and everything they stand for. Can Saffron and Gerhard find what they need to keep them together when it seems the entire world is trying to pull them apart? This dialogue-heavy novel's pace is perhaps a bit too slow for some readers' tastes, but devoted series fans will have no trouble sticking with it. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2017 March #1
Continuing Smith's Courtney family epic (Assegai, 2009, etc.), this novel focuses on big-game hunter Leon and his daughter, Saffron, during the post-World War I era, first on their great Kenya estate, Lusima, and then as they move toward the bloody fray that became World War II.It's an action-packed affair beginning in Africa with coltish young Saffron outdoing the boys on horseback, then attacking Saint Moritz's men-only Cresta Run skeleton-racing course, and ending with her manning a Vickers gun to protect the Greek nation's gold bullion reserves. The tale regularly shifts to Leon, too, but Saffron's adventures extend the Courtney legend, including when she falls in love with an "immediate, instinctive, animal passion" worthy of her clan. The attitude throughout is Old World British colonial, as is the dialogue. There's more than one reference to "the local peasantry." Saffron attends school in South Africa and Oxford. There she makes German friends who will lead to connect ions regarding her father's fortune and makes a disconcerting reacquaintance with his old enemies, the von Meerbach dynasty. As this story ends, Saffron is spotted by a mysterious older gentlemen connected to Britain's Special Operations Executive, while the man who stirred her animal passion is witness to the Babi Yar massacre. Meanwhile, Leon's been forced to helm the family's Cairo-based business, which is threatened by brother Frank's worship of Oswald Mosley. With cameo appearances by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hitler, and Reinhard Heydrich and traveling everyplace from the Ritz in London to a Masai village, the story is wonderfully plotted, woven together by quick but not disconcerting cinematic shifts from scene to scene in a narrative that keeps the pages turning. Occasionally melodramatic, sometimes grandiloquent; those who liked Wouk's War and Remembrance will certainly enjoy this Smith saga. Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 December #1
Next in the New York Times best-selling Smith's most popular series in America, this work finds big-game hunter Leon Courtney raising daughter Saffron alone in 1920s Kenya after his wife's death. Spies and adventurers swirl through in the buildup to World War II, threatening their very survival. With a 100,000-copy first printing.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal.
