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JACK HIGGINS The world's master thriller writer SAD WIND FROM THE SEA For a desperate man like Mark Hagan, eking out the post-war years on the Macao waterfront, the news of the treasure is irresistible. A fortune in gold, carefully stashed at the bottom of some God-forsaken lagoon. And only a beautiful half-Chinese woman standing between him and the prize. A Rose by any other name. Ready to die rather than reveal her secret ... Years of smuggling, gun-running and betrayal have hardened Hagen to the worst the Chinese can throw at him. But from the night Hagen saves Rose's life in a vicious knife fight, the rules of the game start to change. From now on the fight is for justice. And with victory, a chance of love ... 'A compulsively readable storyteller' Sunday Express - from the back cover -
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