The Boer War is finally ending and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat cools off. But the army choose an officer to help track them down while they wait for an opportunity to return to the stolen bounty, the officer chase the three thieves in an riotous set of events. Based on a true story, John Harris entertains and delights in a series of incredulous scenarios brought to glorious life against the backdrop of South Africa's diamond mines.
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'A master of the gripping adventure yarn' -- The Daily Telegraph
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John Harris was born in 1916. He authored the best-selling The Sea Shall Not Have Them and wrote under the pen names of Mark Hebden and Max Hennessy. He was a sailor, airman, a journalist, travel courier, cartoonist and a history teacher. During the Second World War he served with two air forces and two navies. After turning to full-time writing, Harris wrote adventure stories and created a sequence of crime novels around the quirky fictional character Chief Inspector Pel. A master of war and crime fiction, his enduring fictions are versatile and entertaining.
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