They were half-brothers raised in different worlds in the same country & destined to be lifelong enemies. Manfred De La Ray & Shasa Courtney sons of Centaine de Thiry were blood enemies from their very first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africas histroy through two decades they found themselves adversaries in an age-old war of savagery to seize the sword of power in their l&. Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the highland to the secret citadels of Afrikaner power from the clamouring stadiums of Hitlers Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia their story was to become a rich thrilling adventure an epic saga of rivalry & revenge of winners & losers in a struggle where only the ruthless survived.