Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Don Smith (author) Don Smith (author) Don Smith (born August 2, 1909) was a Canadian author of detective and spy fiction. He is best remembered for his "Secret Mission" series of novels, starring the businessman-turned-spy Phil Sherman. Smith was born Donald Taylor Smith in Port Colborne, Ontario. In 1934-1939 he was a foreign correspondent for the "Toronto Star" in Beijing and he piloted a fighter in the Royal Air Force during WWII. He was condecorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross for his participation in the Dieppe Raid in 1942. After the war he lived in Morocco and Majorca, manning different businesses before becoming