An edition of Kingfisher (1977)

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An edition of Kingfisher (1977)

Kingfisher

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After one of their friends disappears, three young Soviet Jews hijack an airliner and demand passage to Israel. In the style that has won him comparisons to Graham Greene and John le Carré, acclaimed thriller writer Gerald Seymour zeroes in on the moral ambiguities of the activists' deeds. As several nations agonize over the conflict between political freedom and the safety of innocent bystanders, Seymour forces us to wonder whether the hijackers are victims, terrorists, or both.
As in all his novels, Seymour focuses on the everyman foot soldier torn between the enemy before him and the high-ranking diplomats at his back. Charlie Webster is a world-weary counter-terrorism expert who has been called away from his soft desk job to negotiate with the hijackers. Gripping, explosive, yet still fully human, Kingfisher demonstrates the concept that elevates all of Seymour's stories: victory in multinational political conflicts is quite often Pyrrhic at the personal level

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Publisher
Summit Books
Language
English
Pages
349

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Kingfisher.
1984, Fontana / Collins
Cover of: Kingfisher
Kingfisher
1977, Collins
in English
Cover of: Kingfisher
Kingfisher: a novel
1977, Summit Books
in English

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Published in

New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ4.S5192 Ki 1977, PR6069.E734 Ki 1977, PZ4.S5192Ki 1977

The Physical Object

Pagination
349 p. ;
Number of pages
349

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4547462M
Internet Archive
kingfishernovel00seym
ISBN 10
0671400150
LCCN
77015584
OCLC/WorldCat
3345445
Library Thing
1086417
Goodreads
4913712

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