THE WHISPERING DEATH

1969

From the blurb of the Graham edition:

"When you burnt my farm and killed my woman I lost many things . . . one of them was pity"

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From the haunted rocks of Devil's Playground through scrub and bush to blood-stained river bed, Terick Hurndell and Katchemu, his old Matabele tracker, pursue a lone vendetta . . .

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Their quarry -- a band of terrorists led by the albino called The Whispering Death who used Terick's fiancee for a brutal, ritual murder.

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This is the man Terick has sworn to kill.

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Set in the Rhodesia of today's headlines this powerful fast-moving novel brings tremendous feeling and insight into a tragic yet believable situation.

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A BRUTAL, TOPICAL NOVEL OF TERRORISM IN RHODESIA

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"a powerful storyteller . . . horror, tension and suspense."

--The Sunday News