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The Singapore grip / J. G. Farrell.

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Record Number 790647
ISBN 9781857994926 (paperback)
Author Farrell, J. G. (James Gordon), 1935-1979
Title The Singapore grip / J. G. Farrell.
Edition Ppaperback edition
Publisher/Date London : Phoenix, 1992.
©1978.
Pagination etc. 601 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary Note Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming - what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation. But something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire - of fixed boundaries between classes and nations - is about to come to a terrible end.
Subject Sieges -- Fiction
Singapore -- Siege, 1942 -- Fiction
Shelf Location F FARR
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