Birds Of Prey (The Courtneys)

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Preferisco la saga egizia e mi ero ripromesso di non leggere i romanzi di Smith ambientati sul mare perché so che il mare non mi entusiasma ma dato che almeno un paio di suoi romanzi in un anno li leggo ho "dovuto" accontentarmi.

Hal had a glimpse of his adversary’s face, black and glistening, a cave of a mouth lined with huge square white teeth, the tongue as pink and curled as a leopard’s as he screamed. Under his father’s tutelage he had studied it so that he knew the colour, the taste and run of it, each eddy and surge.All of this is done quite necessarily, and at times the obvious is given despite a character knowing full well what the omniscient third-person narrator provides (i. Smith deftly evokes not only the horrific but also the beautiful, particularly the lush landscape of Africa.

This is a seafaring quest around Africa; Sir Francis, the Captain, is captured and tortured by the Dutch. Some questions for the author: Hal has no problem marrying a Muslim Balinese woman--indeed, he doesn't even seem to realize that she is not Christian. Birds of Prey is book 9 in the Series but tells of the beginning of the dynasty with the story of Henry Courtney (Hal) and his father Francis, so named after Sir Francis Drake.Smith was born to a British family in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in Central Africa, and attended Rhodes University in South Africa. There is Piracy, War battles, Swordsmanship, A Historical aspect, Adventure on the seas and the continent, Romance, and even an Arthurian legend thrown in.