A Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. The book was the best selling novel published in the UK in 1981.
In 1860, a man and woman approach the coast of Africa aboard a swift clipper – in the command of an American who knows no law. Robyn Ballantyne and her brother Morris have waited years for this to return to Africa, to search for their missionary father who had disappeared somewhere in the wilderness.
Traveling north from Cape Town, they follow a map left by a madman – into an uncharted world of waterfalls and jungle, teeming wildlife, murderous disease, and the ghastly ruins of an astounding city.
Uncovering their father’s trail, Robyn and her brother are in the midst of a slave trade that pours out of Africa like a bloody wound. Now, to survive what they have found, they must make their separate ways out – through pitched battles on land and on sea…and through the pride, passions and fury of their hearts …
