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
James Robert Smith (author) James Robert Smith (author) James Robert Smith (born June 28, 1957) is an American author. His first novel, "The Flock" (), was published August 2, 2006, by Five Star. The Flock is a 2006 novel by James Smith. "The Flock" is a contemporary eco-thriller about what can happen when man violates nature, and when nature fights back. A remote Florida swamp has been targeted for theme park development, and the swamp's inhabitants are none too happy. It doesn't help that the residents are a colony of intelligent, prehistoric, dinosaur-like birds: terror birds. This flock of beasts has escaped the mass