Gold Mine and Monsoon - Wilbur Smith

GOLD MINE

Rod Ironsides, ambitious and hard-living mining expert, knows that the general-managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay.

Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people – for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of the realization of dreams and ambitions which include the destruction of the very mine itself …

MONSOON

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century. At the farthest edges of the known world, the mighty East India Company suffers catastrophic losses from pirates on the high seas.

After four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage – a death or glory mission in the name of the Empire and the Crown.