- Fiction, Romance, Transatlantic flights, Mystery fiction
On a bright September morning in 1939, two days after Britain declares war on Germany, a group of privileged but desperate people gather in Southhampton to board the largest, most luxurious airliner ever built, the Pan American Clipper bound for New York.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Follett
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 526
- Publisher
- Editorial Planeta DeAgostini, S.A., AST : AST MOSKVA : Khranitel', Bookcassette
- Editions
- 56
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, gre, German
- ISBN
- 9780333560709
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“IT WAS THE MOST romantic plane ever made.”
Ken Follett is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more then 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list : *The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple* and *World Without End*.
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