404/81-Περιπέτεια που θυμίζει κινηματογραφική ταινία. ΄Εχει όλα τα απαραίτητα συστατικά . Καλούς, κακούς, βασιλείς , δράση , έρωτες.
Δύο τελείως διαφορετικοί αντρικοί χαρακτήρες αποφασίζουν για οικονομικούς λόγους να βοηθήσουν τους Αιθίοπες στον πόλεμο με την Ιταλία. Συναντούν τη Βίκυ, δημοσιογράφο που βρίσκεται στη περιοχή ως πολεμική ανταποκρίτρια και την ερωτεύονται και οι δυο. Για μένα αναμενόμενο το τέλος . Λυπήθηκα για τον άδικο χαμό τόσων ανθρώπων. ( )

This a random read, completely out of my schedule, a book not even in my TBR. This also happened to be my second experience with Wilbur Smith, the first being an entertaining read, River God, which was a very different kind of book, set in an entirely different time and space.

Cry Wolf is a war fiction based on the 1935 Italian attack on Ethiopia, a deplorable event, a testimony to the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations (not that the current United Nations is doing such a stellar job). There seems to be a lot of errors and omissions from the actual event of attack, which may still be forgiven for this being a fictional account. But the book isn't much otherwise either, some bravado, some romance, a pinch of humour and a lot of craziness; but it fails to make a mark, emotional or otherwise. I probably would have been more moved by a well written account of a war between Martians and Plutonians.

An average read, I doubt I will sample more of what Wilbur Smith has to offer. ( )

Antoerh typical Wilbur Smith adventure. Rude technology, handsome men, beautiful women, rough sex.

I got this because I enjoyed Smith's Shout at the Devi, both as a book and as a film I saw in London, and because the Ethiopian campaign interests me. This has a clasic stereotype adventure climax--European heroine being tortured naked by African villain's henchwomen when European heroes show up, shoot henchwomen and villain, rescue heroine. ( )

An amazing adventure of how a few brave men (and girls) almost single handedly hold off the Italian invasion of part of Ethiopia. A story of adventure, war, strife, misery and suffering, but also, ... a story of love and hope and kidness. ( )