Books: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder, A Sparrow Falls, The Burning Shore,
Biography: A pilot during the First World War. The illegitimate son of Anna and Sean Courtney, he is adopted and raised by his uncle Garrick Courtney. He marries Centaine de Thiry, but tragically dies on their wedding day. She then has their child, Shasa Courtney.
Parents: Anna Courtney (Snr) (nee) Van Essen - General Sean Courtney
Children:
Squadron Leader Michael Shasa de Thiry Courtney DFC
''Something always dies when the lion feeds and yet there is meat for those that follow him.' The lion is Sean, hero of this tremendous drama of the men who took possession of South Africa in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.'
'The Sound of Thunder
'The game was war. The prize was a land. The penalty of defeat was death. . .' The Sound of Thunder is an epic of the Anglo-Boer War and the peace which followed.'
'Sean Courtney, who made and lost £5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.'
'The Burning Shore, the odyssey of a beautiful young woman of aristocratic birth, Centaine de Thiry, in search of love and fortune – a monumental journey of mystery and discovery.'
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