Wilbur Smith · 1984 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 1984 Ballantyne saga. Craig Mellow, the last of his line, comes home from exile to a newly independent Zimbabwe to rebuild the derelict family ranch. But his dream of a wildlife paradise in the Zambezi valley collides with a vast ivory-poaching ring and a deadly political plot - and, branded a spy, he must run for the Botswana border to survive.

1. 1
   Harare

   Once the toast of literary New York, the exiled writer Craig Mellow returns to a newly independent Zimbabwe as a World Bank agent - and finds his heart pulled at once toward the derelict family land he means to reclaim and restore.

2. 2
   The Zambezi valley

   Building his dream of a wildlife safari at Zambezi Waters, Craig and the photographer Sally-Anne uncover a huge ivory-poaching operation - a slaughter that masks a treacherous plot to sell the country he once fought for into ruin.

3. 3
   Botswana

   Framed as a foreign spy and stripped of everything, Craig is declared an enemy of the state - and must flee with Sally-Anne through the bush toward the Botswana border, hunted every mile by the men whose crimes he has exposed.