- Unknown Binding: 448 pages
- ASIN: 000728943X
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Unknown Binding
This is a vastly underrated story. Set in 1942 with the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, a British national, Brigadier Farnholme (Retired) barges into an army base and demands a ship out of the habour before the Japanese get there.
The story basically follows him and his attempts to get out of Singapore, but develops reasonably quickly to also include the fate of a British tanker and its crew who keep on bumping into the Brigadier and the motley crew that he joins in the escape from the doomed city.
The story is full of suspense and you know that something is wrong with more than one of the passengers' stories. Also why are the Japanese chasing them with all they have and refuse to let them get away?
The action jumps from the burning doomed port of Singapore to the waters around the South China Sea and the Indonesian islands as the tanker makes a brave attempt to get away. Finally the story follows the crews and passengers onto the Javanese shore and littoral where their true identities and roles in the story are revealed.
Great story, great characters and a classic suspense action thriller.
The story basically follows him and his attempts to get out of Singapore, but develops reasonably quickly to also include the fate of a British tanker and its crew who keep on bumping into the Brigadier and the motley crew that he joins in the escape from the doomed city.
The story is full of suspense and you know that something is wrong with more than one of the passengers' stories. Also why are the Japanese chasing them with all they have and refuse to let them get away?
The action jumps from the burning doomed port of Singapore to the waters around the South China Sea and the Indonesian islands as the tanker makes a brave attempt to get away. Finally the story follows the crews and passengers onto the Javanese shore and littoral where their true identities and roles in the story are revealed.
Great story, great characters and a classic suspense action thriller.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A good adventure story, detailing the escape of a disparate group of people from Singapore Harbour on the eve of the Japanese invasion. As with HMS Ulysses, the descriptive writing of war at sea is excellent. Expect and allow for the vocabulary and characterisation to be outdated - this was first published in 1958, after all - but otherwise a fine vintage MacLean with plenty of tension.
Format:Paperback
The Japanese theatre of war doesn't normally interest me, but I've found this to be very engaging. Pace is fast, there's no let down for the main characters. Amazingly efficient writing style.
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SBJH Revisited
Very good.
I read it when I was 10.
Now I'm 60 I thought I'd check to see if it was as good as I remember it!
It has dated a little of course, but....
I read it when I was 10.
Now I'm 60 I thought I'd check to see if it was as good as I remember it!
It has dated a little of course, but....
Published 11 months ago by Tony V
A ripping yarn that promises more than it delivers
MacLean is a fine writer but this is not his finest novel. In my view, the opening chapters are the best: the description of Singapore under assault from the Japanese has an `end... Read more
Published 11 months ago by H. Collingbourne
Synopsis
February, 1942: Singapore lay burning and shattered, defenseless before the conquering hordes of Japanese, as the last boat slipped out of the harbor into the South China Sea. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 2008 by Javaslublu Books
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