A Dragon for Christmas (Black Dagger Crimes) [Hardcover]

Gavin Black (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997 | Series: Black Dagger Crimes

Paul Harris'' business is to sell diesel engi nes to power riverjunks. He is not deterred from revisiting China by his known anti-communist record. But when he gets t here, it soon becomes clear that someone is trying to kill h im. '

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘Paul Harris is up there in the major league’ – The New York Times

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Black Dagger Crime (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745186815
• ISBN-13: 978-0745186818
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,606,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)