Escape: The Love Story from Whirlwind by James Clavell

About the Book

The Shah is thrown out of Iran and the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, heartbreak, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oilfields. Their one objective now is to make a bold concerted escape, with their helicopters, to safety across the Gulf.

Editorial Reviews

James Clavell is a teller of stories. They are complicated and exciting, and you are desperate to know what will happen to his characters because they are like the people you know from your own life and experience, set in strange and sometimes terrible circumstances' John Simpson

About the Author

James Clavell

James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a British novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and POW. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape, The Fly and To Sir, with Love.