They were half-brothers; raised in different worlds in the same country; and destined to be lifelong enemies. Manfred De La Ray and Shasa Courtney; sons of Centaine de Thiry; were blood enemies from their very first boyhood encounter. Caught up in the tumult of South Africa's history through two decades; they found themselves adversaries in an age-old war of savagery to seize the sword of power in their land. Sweeping from the teeming goldfields of the highland to the secret citadels of Afrikaaner power; from the clamouring stadiums of Hitler's Berlin Olympics to the raging war over Abyssinia.