Blue Horizon

Courtney, Book 11

By: Wilbur Smith

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Jim sprang back on to the truck of the violently rocking wagon and stared across at Manatasee. She saw him and pointed her assegai at his face. Then he saw the length of slow-match had been exposed across the last yard of trampled earth below the mound on which the queen stood. The swift flame shot along it, leaving the fuse blackened and twisted as it burned. Jim clenched his jaws and waited for the explosion.

A powerful enemy. A land of second chances.

Jim Courtney is protected by all the wealth and influence that his family's successful business, the Courtney Brothers Trading Company, can provide in the Dutch-owned colonies of South Africa.

Louisa Leuven is an orphaned young woman who escaped the plague only to be unjustly imprisoned and transported to the Cape. When a storm destroys her prison ship, Jim is her only hope of escape.

But Louisa and Jim have greater adventures in the African wilds ahead of them: they must flee from Dutch forces who seek not only to recapture their prisoner but also to hunt down and hang Jim Courtney - and punish the other member of the Courtney family, however they can.... 

©2020 Wilbur Smith (P)2020 Audible, Ltd

Great story by a great author

Marvelous story as always Every one of his books can be read over and over

Fantastic through and through!!!

Simply amazing story don’t miss any , read the whole . Best narration in all the books!

One of my favorites…love the narrator

Make the investment of both time and a credit, worth it on both counts. Wilbur Smith weaves a tale like no one else can, and while I’ve listened/read many of his novels, this one ranks amongst my favorites.

Best Ever

I have been a Wilbur Smith fan for years but I think this is his best yet!

Incredible!

The stories get better and better…and the reader is mesmerizing … these books are difficult to put down…everyone is in for a reading/listening treat!!

A Series to See Through

I have started many series, and usually get burned out and abandon them. I cant imagine taking a break from the amazing Courtney family saga. These books are fantastic, and everything expected from an author, and performance are here.

Another Super African Saga

Wilbur Smith is unsurpassed in the imagery of Africa, its people,animals and landscape. Drama and adventure travels from the Old World to the Dark continent. The book is long, but I did not want to put it down.

Amazing and breathtaking

One of Wilbur Smith’s best novels. Filled with adventure, action and intrigue. So well written and the characters are all so well portrayed. Could not stop listening. Learn about Africa during the 1700s, the Arabian wars and sailing the African coast.

Blue Horizon

This is Wilbur st his best. This book is riveting. Filled with the entire extent of human emotions and well fleshed out characters. In the end you feel like you know and either love them or hate them. I think it's my best Wilbur so far. The performance is great with Sean Barrett taking us through it with such expertise you're carried away to another place. I recommend it highly for lovers of a good throbbing adventure story.

Story was not bad but performance was

This was a typical Wilbur Smith book. The story was longer than a needed to be in order to capture the views and experiences of "all" the characters during any singular event. Even as long as it was it flowed well and was exciting enough. What I really did not like was the narrator. He had a gruff old man's voice and when he tried to do a woman's voice or young man's it just did not work for me. There are so many good South African narrators that I found strange that they used someone with this tonal quality when so much of the story was from a younger man's point of view.

all I've ever needed....

any writer and narrator that can weave,hypnotise, create....and for so long ...is all I ask from my books! simply perfect thank you Wilbur and Shawn

The end of an era

few writers manage the descriptive power of Wilbur Smith, which is evident in his latest collaborations. but this book is him as some of his best with loveable
characters and rouge

Another great addition to the saga.

Kept me listening from the get go. Wonderful adventure and written beautifully as always. I would have liked Zama to be a bigger part of the story as Aboli was, but still enjoyed it thoroughly. Sean Barrett also did a great job narrating as always.

Exciting story

Will the Courtneys never stop making foes then hinting them down across swathes of Africa, described in beautiful detail?
I loved this story and can’t wait to start the next in chronological order.

Riveting

Took its time to catch me but since it did I have been enthralled. I hate bloodthirsty books but this had me enchanted.

Best one in Courtney series

I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend this book. Wonderful story lines and characters brought to life by Sean Barrett a master story teller.

Great stuff!

Excellent swashbuckling stuff, hardly a punctured lung that doesn’t wheeze its last, a skewered kidney or liver that doesn’t spurt black blood or a shattered skull that doesn’t leak brain matter. The goodies get laid and the baddies get it in the neck and all is well with the world… for the moment. NEXT!

Never disappoints

Wilbur Smith brings the challenge and excitement of the sea and the African bush to life. The colonisation of South Africa by the Nguni nation from the north and Europeans from the north is an important part of South African history.

A Thrilling Tale

A Very enjoyable adventure story from start to finish it helps to have read the prequel which is just as good

Another gripping Courtney adventure

The saga continues with the Courtney’s taking the day once again across the African continent