Chapters 1 - 5 Summary

A Sparrow Falls by Wilbur Smith is a riveting tale that begins with the war in France, and follows three combatants back to Africa. Mark Anders and Fergus MacDonald are a crack sniper team in France, but when Mark is shot, the war is over for him. He goes home, looking forward to being with his grandfather, only to find that he is dead. As he looks into the death, he becomes a target himself, and the closer he looks the more foul the story of his grandfather's accident is. After two attempts on his life, Mark realizes his grandfather was murdered so that a group of men could gain access to 'Andersland' and the water on it. Dirk Courtney's greed knows no bounds as he tries to gain access to land slated as a National Park so that he can...