Kingfisher
$32.43
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2014
Summary
Kingfisher: Flight to Freedom
A group of four Ukrainian Jewish students, weary of second-class citizenship within the Soviet Union, are willing to fight for recognition, even through violence. When one of them is captured after a shooting, their time dwindles, and they see only one desperate option: hijacking a plane to the West, with Israel as their ultimate destination.
Their flight for freedom faces obstacle after obstacle as country after country refuses them landing rig…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444760057 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 144476005X |
| Author: | Gerald Seymour |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Unusually good… convincing and exciting… meticulously and skillfully sketched
Brilliant… Palm-sweating tension. - New York Times
Full of suspense… All too credible. - Daily TelegraphUnusually good… convincing and exciting… meticulously and skillfully sketched. - Financial TimesThe best novel yet about the chilling background to hijacking and society’s answer to it. - The TimesAbout The Author
Gerald Seymour
Gerald Seymour was a reporter at ITN for 15 years. He covered events in Vietnam, Borneo, Aden, the Munich Olympics, Israel and Northern Ireland. He has been a full-time writer since 1978. Gerald Seymour exploded onto the literary scene in 1978 with the massive bestseller HARRY’S GAME. The first major thriller to tackle the modern troubles in Northern Ireland, it was described by Frederick Forsyth as ‘like nothing else I have ever read’ and it changed the landscape of the British thriller forever.
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