Elephant Song (Smith novel)

Elephant Song
ISBN		978-0679408994

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]

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

Plot

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

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

v t e Works by Wilbur Smith
Novels	When the Lion Feeds (1964) The Dark of the Sun (1965) The Sound of Thunder (1966) Shout at the Devil (1968) Gold Mine (1970) The Diamond Hunters (1971) The Sunbird (1972) Eagle in the Sky (1974) The Eye of the Tiger (1975) Cry Wolf (1976) A Sparrow Falls (1977) Hungry as the Sea (1978) Wild Justice (1979) A Falcon Flies (1980) Men of Men (1981) The Angels Weep (1982) The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984) The Burning Shore (1985) Power of the Sword (1986) Rage (1987) A Time to Die (1989) Golden Fox (1990) Elephant Song (1991) River God (1993) The Seventh Scroll (1995) Birds of Prey (1997) Monsoon (1999) Warlock (2001) Blue Horizon (2003) The Triumph of the Sun (2005) The Quest (2007) Assegai (2009) Those in Peril (2011) Vicious Circle (2013) Desert God (2014) Pharaoh (2016)
Memoir	On Leopard Rock (2018)
With co-writers	Golden Lion (2015) Predator (2016) The Tiger's Prey (2017) War Cry (2017) Courtney's War (2018) King of Kings (2019) Ghost Fire (2019) Cloudburst (2020) Call of the Raven (2020) Thunderbolt (2021) Legacy of War (2021) The New Kingdom (2021) Shockwave (2022) Storm Tide (2022) Titans of War (2022) Prey Zone (2022)
Adaptations	Dark of the Sun (1968) The Last Lion (1972) Gold (1974) The Kingfisher Caper (1975) Shout at the Devil (1976) Mountain of Diamonds (1991 TV movie) Wild Justice (1994 TV movie) The Seventh Scroll (1999 mini-series) The Diamond Hunters (2001 mini-series)

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