Paul Theroux – Saint Jack (EPUB)
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Author: Paul Theroux
Language: English
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780544339965
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Historical Fiction, Literary Styles & Movements – Fiction, Historical Fiction – Other, Picaresque Fiction
Once a small-time American hustler, Jack Flowers found his calling when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack started hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors—anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye. Some years later, he’s running two pleasure palaces and something of a legend among those in the know.
But just as Jack is riding high, a shocking tumble toward the brink of death leaves him shaken, depressed and vulnerable. Desperate to pull himself back up, he’s quick to do business with Edwin Shuck, a powerful American working to take down an unsuspecting general. Marked with Paul Theroux’s trademark biting humor, Saint Jack…