The Hammer of God

'Alan Scholefield updates the old-fashioned tale of Empire for our post-Jingo era, and it works very well. One hears the thrilling bugles and drums with a lifting of the heart..." - GUARDIAN. Led by the experienced Franklin, Lord Lamming's party had come to Abyssinia to hunt, but they soon found themselves caught up in a far more deadly slaughter...The country was now a quagmire of plot and counter-plot, of pillaging and massacre. Theodore, Abyssinia's King of Kings - once a zealous reformer - had become an irrational force, with an army that was completely out of control. In the face of such overwhelming madness, the hunters could only watch helplessly as Victorian Africa carved its bloody name on to the tablet of history!