I’m currently reading Golden Fox by Wilbur Smith, which follows A Time To Die in the Courtneys of Africa series.
I’m yet to work out why they aren’t listed in opposite order. A Time To Die is set in the 1980s in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Golden Fox is set in the late 1960s, early 70s.
Perhaps the reason will become apparent by the end of the book. Both are enjoyable, but considerably different to earlier novels in the series. These ones tend to focus on one character whereas the others narrated several stories at once.
Smith’s political views are coming through more strongly as well. He obviously disapproved of the Communist-inspired terrorist movements that pushed for independence in southern Africa, which is fair enough.
He speaks several times of the misguided simplistic solution that one man should have one vote. In A Time To Die one of the black character tries to escape from Mozambique to South Africa with Sean Courtney.
He says he can’t eat a vote!
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