A Time for Pirates by Gavin Black (First US Edition)

Gavin Black

ISBN 10: 0060103728 / ISBN 13: 9780060103729

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1971

About this Item

A Time for Pirates by Gavin Black (First US Edition) A sharp, tight, copy. A bright dust jacket. Not price-clipped. States, "First U.S. Edition" A remainder mark at the bottom of the text block.

Seller Inventory # HCX16133-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Time for Pirates by Gavin Black (First US Edition)
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060103728
• ISBN 13: 9780060103729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Tom Centala(Jacket Design)
• Edition: First U.S. Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: BOOK
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery

About this title

Synopsis

A TALE OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE SET IN KUALA LUMPUR. Paul Harris is an outsider - an unconventional businessman attempting to assimilate into Asian culture. His operations in the Far East bring him wealth and adventure, but not without risk. For while opportunities are plentiful, so too are a number of ruthless opponents, and more often than not Paul Harris finds himself a man on the run, pursued by a violent and dangerous enemy. It is rare to find, in a novel of suspense, pictures of a distant country that are as vivid, authentic, colourful and moving as Gavin Black gives us here: or characters so distinctive and mysterious. (A PAUL HARRIS NOVEL)

About the Author

Gavin Black was the pseudonym used by Scottish author Oswald Wynd to publish his highly successful thrillers. Born in 1913 to missionary parents in Japan, he was educated at The American School in Tokyo until his family moved to the United States where he undertook a year of high school in Atlantic City. Upon graduation, he attended The University of Edinburgh until the outbreak of WWII. He then joined the Scots Guards and was sent to Malaya with British Intelligence, attached to the Indian Army. After the Japanese invasion, he was captured in the jungle and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp in Hokkaido where his fluency in the language aided both himself and other prisoners of war. It was when he returned to Scotland via the Philippines that he thought to try his hand at a 'first novel' contest run by Doubleday in America. His entry Black Fountains (about a young American-educated Japanese woman embroiled in the war) won him both first prize and the staggering sum of $20,000. He went on to make his fame and fortune writing critically acclaimed thrillers as Gavin Black, most of which were set in Asia and featured Paul Harris. He died in 1998.