Giampiero Hirzer Bücher

It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.

Etwas Unheilvolles geschieht in den entlegenen und unerforschten Tiefen Afrikas, wo der mächtige Nil entspringt. Schreckliche Plagen suchen Ägypten heim. Plötzlich versiegt der Nil. Das Land vertrocknet. In seiner Verzweiflung über die mysteriöse und todbringende Dürre schickt der Pharao nach dem zauberkundigen Taita, dem einzigen Mann, der in der Lage sein könnte, zu den Quellen des Stromes vorzudringen und die Ursache der Leiden zu ergründen. Niemand ahnt, was für ein furchterregender Feind in jenem geheimnisvollen Landstrich lauert ...