What are the best 5 Wilbur Smith books?
Read ‘em all and one of the best IMHO—The Sunbird— is about an expedition of Phoenicians/Carthagenians that flees the destruction of their city and goes south around the western shores of Africa to try to start a colony in the interior.
He also has a whole series on Ancient Egypt which are great historical reads.
As an aside,I have a good friend who wasn’t much of a reader and he asked me for a good book to read. I got him started on Wilbur Smith and he now reads a lot in different genres/