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 Africa's history 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 Afrikaaner power from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler's Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia.