He is a part of this story, and contributes unwittingly to Dirk's wickedness, but he is mostly in the background as far as character development. We lose sight of this one for most of the book, that one shows up once in awhile, and the other one is just a thought here and there.įor example Michael, Garrick Courtney's son. One thing that I noticed with this book is that at this time Smith still did not seem to be able to blend his characters into the story in such a way that they were all involved. Why does he seem so much more like Sean than Dirk?! An interesting little puzzle, that. Garrick's son Michael is part of the picture as well. There were commandos, guerrilla warfare, and the use of a scorched earth policy in which Boer wives and children were placed in internment camps and Boer homesteads burned to the ground.īesides dealing with all of this, Sean also has to face the ongoing tension with his brother, and the problems caused by his own son Dirk, who seems to have a streak of pure evil in him. It was bloody, ruthless, and there was much needless waste of life, as there is in all wars. The Boer War is not one I knew much about, but that is the war we all fight in this book, Sean most of all. Sean had no idea of this new situation, and it will change everything for him. He and his group are returning from hunting ivory (thank goodness we were all spared the descriptions of shooting elephants this time) and everyone is dreaming of the riches to be had once they get to town and sell their goods.īut the drums of war are beating in town.
We find Sean out in the bush four years after the end of When The Lion Feeds. Although once again Sean takes over the story, Garrick is still involved here and there, usually with evil thoughts and actions towards Sean. This book came out in 1966, was the author's third to be published, and the second to deal with the Courtney brothers Sean and Garrick.
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