An action-packed thriller featuring a mismatched band of mercenaries from global bestseller Wilbur Smith Hired to kill. Fighting to live. Captain Bruce Curry has a simple enough mission or so he thinks: lead his mercenary soldiers to rescue a town cut off by rebel fighting in the Belgian Congo. It soon becomes clear that the towns diamond supplies are the real focus of the mission hes been sent on. Although Curry soon finds something more valuable than diamonds and will do anything to protect it. But theres one thing Curry hadnt counted on - that his most deadly enemies may not be the ones hes facing down the barrel of a gun but the ones who are right beside him . . .