Elephant Song (Smith novel)

Elephant Song is a 1991 novel by Wilbur Smith.[1][2] Publishers Weekly stated that the novel contained "some romance, more sex, lots of bloody fighting and international intrigues, all carried out by deftly directed larger-than-life cardboard characters, will surely please Smith's fans and other action-addicted readers."[3]

Elephant Song
First UK edition
AuthorWilbur Smith
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
February 4, 1992
Publication placeSouth Africa
Pages498 pp.
ISBN978-0679408994

It was the third-highest selling novel in England in 1992.[4]

Plot

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Documentary filmmaker Daniel Armstrong vows revenge after a gang of poachers steals a huge cache of ivory and kills Chief Warden Johnny Nzou, Armstrong's childhood friend.

References

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  1. ^ Elephant Song at Wilbur Smith's website
  2. ^ Bencivenga, Jim (18 March 1992). "An African Tragedy". The Christian Science Monitor. p. 15.
  3. ^ Review at Publishers Weekly, accessed 18 May 2013
  4. ^ "The fastsellers of 1992". The Guardian. 12 January 1993. p. A10.