In Gold Mine, an exciting adventure from Wilbur Smith, ambitious and hard-living mining expert Rod Ironsides knows that the general managership of the Sonder Ditch gold mine is the chance of a lifetime. But the price of unquestioning obedience to the coldly obsessive genius of Dr Manfred Steyner proves impossible to pay.

Both men are but unwitting tools of powerful people - for whom the control of a gold mine is only part of a dangerous which includes the destruction of the very mine itself...