Anyone read the last Wilbur Smith book - The Triumph of the Sun ?

It's the last addition in the family sagas of the Courtneys and the Ballantynes.

Is Wilbur Smith's Africa historic correct? In this book he places the Courtneys in Kharthoum, Sudan a wee bit after the mid-1800s, and we have a conflict between an Islamic rising under a Mahdi on the one side, and the British Empire and the Abyssinian Empire on the other side.

I have read about Emperor John and Abyssinia before, but thought it a much more ancient empire than the 1800s ...

On the other hand, whether the book is historically correct or not, the book is as usual very "cathing". I've been at it for two days now, and have problems putting it away to do other "housely" things ...

For those that like Wilbur Smith I can recommend the book!

:-) Paul