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'A tremendous piece of dramatic narrative description-as thrilling a yarn as you are likely to pick up-Magnificent' Sunday Times 20011227

About the Author

Richard Hughes was born in 1900. Living much of his life in a castle in Wales, he wrote poems and plays as well as novels. He died in 1976

Reviews

To take the same subject as Conrad in Typhoon would be foolhardy if it were not so triumphantly justified
*Graham Greene*