The headmaster of the most respected english school in saigon, percival chen is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer. The chinese headmaster of an english language academy tries to keep body, soul and school together in saigon during the vietnam war. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Audiobooks read by feodor chin caroline shaffer is an audiofile earphones awardwinning narrator. A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one mans loyalty to his country, his family and. Wealthy and ruthless, gabriel duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high societyand now he wants to get even. To an undaunted wallflower, hes just the beast next door. Find the headmasters wager in all canadian bookstores or purchase online at. Famous men of greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. There was a lot of money to be made as a result of the war, but the stakes were high, and certain classes of people were destined to lose regardless of who won the war. Hot off the presses the headmasters wager, my latest book and my debut novel, is about.
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A former company member at the oregon shakespeare festival for nineteen years, she received an mfa from the american conservatory theater. Andrew murray 1828 1917 it is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the christian life is too little understood, that this book has been written. Inspector ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster s enigmatic wife, but jack robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence. The headmasters wager, book by vincent lam paperback. It can be read as a standalone but i highly recommend the first two books and the characters from those books are in this book. Percival chen is the headmaster of the most respected english school in.
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Listen to headmasters wager audiobook by vincent lam. The present tense of vincent lams the headmaster s wager opens in 1966, the most recent vietnam war already under way and american involvement beginning to increase. His extraordinary range takes in stories about human kindness and barbarism in glacier national park or a vietnam combat veterans struggle to cope with life at home or a fantastical story about giants, bigfoot babies, and dragons. With the war as backdrop, its secret police and theatrical politic the headmasters wager can only be rich in historical details although the author may have taken some liberties with his story.
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