At the end of the 19th century, a rebellion was launched in Sudan against Anglo-Egyptian rule. The warlike tribes of the desert gathered under the banner of the false prophet Mahdi, and the threat emanated from them as fiercely as the heat from the sun. The Sudanese capital Khartoum is under siege. Trapped along with hundreds of other Britons were General Charles Gordon, Captain Penrod Ballantyne, merchant Ryder Courtenay, British Consul David Benbrooke and his daughters. Now they have a common destiny and a common goal - after all, those who do not have time to leave Khartoum will face a terrible death... “The Triumph of the Sun” by Wilbur Smith is an epic, large-scale book in which history itself comes to life: oriental splendor and treachery, the noise and fury of the crowd , the beat of drums and the sounds of battle, heroism and betrayal, dark moments of despair and the sudden light of hope.