Birds Of Prey
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1997
- Category
- Political, Political, Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780679308904
- Publish Date
- Sep 1997
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
On a May night in 1968, the plane carrying the French Chief of Staff General Ailleret explodes over the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, killing all aboard except for one. Four years later, writer Charles Stone is drawn irresistibly into the mystery that
still surrounds the General's death.
About the author
John Ralston Saul is one of Canada’s leading social and political commentators. He is the author of numerous books on philosophy and contemporary politics, including Voltaire’s Bastards, Reflections Of A Siamese Twin, and most recently The Collapse of Globalism. Saul was the Massey lecturer in 1995, and won the 1996 Governor General’s Award for nonfiction for The Unconscious Civilization, based on those lectures. He is the former president of PEN Canada and the creator of the acclaimed LaFontaine Baldwin Lecture series. A regular speaker and panelist across Canada and internationally, John Ralston Saul currently lives in Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
"Saul's masterly narration rises to the level of art--Fiction that makes paranoia a delight." -The Chicago Tribune