Shout at the Devil is a tense adventure novel from master of the genre
Wilbur Smith, set during the outbreak of the First World War.
'Now the seas were more awesome in their raging insanity. Each mountain
of glassy grey rose high above the raft, shielding it for a few seconds
from the whip of the wind, its crest blowing off like the plume of an
Etruscan helmet, before it slid down, collapsing upon itself in the
tumbling roar of breaking water.'
In German East Africa on the eve of the First World War, two freebooting
adventurers - one a flamboyant Irish American, the other an impeccable
young Englishman - pit their wits against the gross German Commissioner
from whose territory they are making their living as game hunters and
ivory poachers. But the outbreak of war gives the signal for their
private skirmishing to flare into a relentless vendetta pursued with
devastating violence by land and sea, so that what begins as a comic
escapade gives way to chilling horror....
