Books: When the Lion Feeds, The Sound of Thunder, A Sparrow Falls,
The spoilt and reckless first (legitimate) son of Katrina and Sean Courtney, Dirk was born in what is now Zimbabwe, where his parents were hunting ivory. His desperation for his father's attention ultimately corrupts him, and he dedicates his life to the ruin of the Courtney family.
Parents: Katrina Leroux - General Sean Courtney
Other Relatives: Son of Katrina Leroux and Sean Courtney
''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.'
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