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World pacific : a novel

World pacific : a novel

Book 2025

"A brilliant spy novel and madcap adventure story from the author of The Torqued Man, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1939, the clouds of war are gathering. Richard Halifax -- a man of much bravado, master of misadventure, and writer of the breeziest of prose styles -- vanishes in the Pacific. Halifax was attempting to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the Wor...