They were half-brothers, raised in different worlds in the same country, and destined to be lifelong enemies.

Manfred De La Rey and Shasa Courtney – the sons of Centaine de Thiry – were blood enemies form their first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africa’s history through two decades, they found themselves adversaries in a war of age-old savagery to seize the sword of power in their land.

Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the Highveld to the secret citadels of Afrikaner power, from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler’s Berlin Olympics to the raging air war over Abyssinia, Power of the Sword is a rich, thrilling adventure, an epic saga of rivalry and revenge, of winners and losers in a struggle where only the ruthless survive.