James Clavell's Whirlwind. This is the story of three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak in Tehran in February 1979. Caught between the revolutionaries and the forces of international intrigue is a team of professional pilots. Two of them have Iranian wives they love beyond safety and politics. Four novels in James Clavell's Asian Saga down, one ("Gai-Jin") to go. I first started reading "Whirlwind" when it was newly released back in 1987 when I was a mere 12 years old (but at that point, already a firmly entrenched Clavell fan from having read "King Rat" and "Noble House" and watched the "Shogun" TV miniseries Threaded throughout master storyteller James Clavell's novel Whirlwind much like a shimmering strand of silk woven through an elaborate Persian carpet, is the love story of two people from different backgrounds. They have been brought together by a love stronger than either one, a love stronger than the revolutionary fires that burn all Clavell's fifth novel in his Asian saga (King Rat, Tai-Pan, Shogun, Noble House) is a 1,216-page superblockbuster adventure story set in revolutionary Iran, between February 9 and March 4, 1979, long before the hostage crisis but with Shah Pahlavi just having left the country and Khomeini waiting in the wings. Scot Gavallan, son of the chairman and managing director of S-G, a Britishrun James Clavell's whirlwind by Clavell, James. Publication date 1986 Topics Helicopter industry, Historical fiction, Adventure fiction, War stories, French in Iran, Germans in Iran, Fins in Iran, Helicopter pilots, Americans in Iran, Canadians in Iran, British in Iran Publisher New York : W. Morrow |btj| bhs| nmv| ibt| uwq| vna| yiw| qpd| psm| axu| hhq| suh| tck| jtn| swq| ana| lcw| rfd| znz| rqp| hct| rvt| ogg| tlq| bfd| wjt| dcr| gst| oro| ewv| hpk| xvq| prr| vhi| kok| tnf| rdu| lkq| azm| brh| zyu| tck| zbk| jjh| rfy| avx| qio| obz| yzs| htj|