Wilbur Smith · 1987 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 1987 Courtney saga. As apartheid hardens into law, the half-brothers Shasa Courtney and Manfred De La Rey rise together in the government they serve, while Shasa's own son turns against everything they stand for. From the Cape Town parliament to the dead of Sharpeville and the quarries of Robben Island, a country tears itself apart.

1. 1
   Cape Town

   In the parliament at Cape Town, Shasa Courtney crosses the floor to serve alongside his half-brother and old enemy Manfred De La Rey - trading his conscience for influence as the architecture of apartheid is bolted into place.

2. 2
   Sharpeville

   At Sharpeville the police fire into a crowd of protesters and the dead lie in the dust - a massacre that hardens every heart in the country and turns the resistance, at last, from passive protest toward the gun.

3. 3
   Johannesburg

   In Johannesburg the movement goes underground and turns to sabotage, and Shasa's son Michael is drawn into the struggle against his own family - while the security police close their net around the men behind the bombings.

4. 4
   Robben Island

   In the lime quarries of Robben Island, across the water from Cape Town, the leaders of the struggle are locked away for life - and the Courtneys are left to reckon with what their country and their family have become.