Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
The year is 1935, shortly before World War II. The "Wolf of Rome," Italy's army under Mussolini is poised to invade Ethiopia, whose army is not only ill-equipped, but also severely outnumbered. Desperate to save his troubled land, Emperor Haile Selassie enlists American Jake Barton and Englishman Gareth Swales, two risk-takers who both share a taste for danger and the thrill of adventure.
The mission seems simple : Deliver four ancient refurbished armoured cars and Vicky Camberwell, a beautiful American journalist, in exchange for a hefty weight of gold. But soon Jake and Gareth realise that this is just the beginning of a long, harrowing journey that will take them from the sea to the scorching deserts of Africa to the peaks of its treacherous mountains where a dramatic struggle to stay alive awaits them...