Flame of Life by Alan Sillitoe
Self-styled physicist Dr. Abdul Abdan is an expert in flattery. He cons Chairman Bud Lightfoot of the powerful Fuels Agency to gamble for your date with destiny. The gamble hits the jackpot: captivity in the Alps, ruined romance, murder - tangled in a true tale of government deception. The public doesn't win. Ruthless federal bureaucrats stop at nothing to fire underlings and revive the zeppelin industry in this farcical thriller. One harebrained scheme after another moves the lurching narrative forward. There's a splash of dirigible lore, but it's the novel's stagy, anachronistic prose and dialogue--'Fearlessness has brought us to these heights, madam, and fealessness shall sustain us'--that most evoke the Hindenburg era. -- Kirkus Reviews| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780491019217 |
| ISBN 10 | 0491019211 |
| Title | Flame of Life |
| Author | Alan Sillitoe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Ebury Publishing |
| Year published | 1974-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 299 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |