Birds of Prey (Smith novel) is at war with England. Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal attack ships of the Dutch East India Company off the coast of Africa. They are betrayed and Sir Francis is executed. Hal winds up working for Prester John. Film and TV rights to the book were bought by Corona Pictures but as of 2013 no adaptation has been filmed. Birds of Prey (Smith novel) Birds of Prey is a 1997 novel by Wilbur Smith set in the late 17th century. The novel was the first in the third sequence of the Courtney series of novels, and as of
Bridge of Birds Bridge of Birds Bridge of Birds is a fantasy novel by Barry Hughart, first published in 1984. It is the first of three novels in "The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox" series. The original draft of "Bridge of Birds" is included in a special slipcased version of the omnibus collection, "The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox", released by Subterranean Press in 2008. Hughart called the novel "a modern version of a classical form of Chinese novel, which was an underground Taoist form designed to fight back against Confucians. Confucians liked to castrate people who