a man walking on Florin Road just 400 feet from the scene of Wilbur’s death was killed by a driver who did not stop. “Florin Road is crazy. Florin Road is not safe,” Smith said.

A year after his third wife’s death, in the January of 2000, Wilbur Smith met a Tajik woman from Moscow working at a book store in London. “In spite of her being 39 years my junior ...