The Yangtze Run
Patrick O'HaraMay 1949. In Shanghai the rich and influential of Old China wait anxiously for an opportunity to escape Mao's advancing Communist forces ..
But only one man - 'Mad' Harry Lord, owner of the powerful motor launch JACARANDA - has the cunning and the sheer nerve to snatch the bullion from under the noses of both Communist and Nationalist forces- by way of the notorious 'Yangtze Run! ...
THE YANGTZE RUN is a taut and exciting adventure in the tradition of Alistair MacLean and Desmond Bagley.
During his childhood, Patrick O’Hara was brought up by various people and in various establishments until he was old enough to run away to sea. At fourteen his first ship was a passenger-cargo liner out of London on the Latin-America run, on board which he washed crockery and polished silverware. Later he served as Quartermaster, Seaman and Fireman with Dutch, German and Danish ships — mostly in Far Eastern and Pacific waters — an area of the world with which he has formed a romantic and lasting attachment. He was introduced to books and writing by an East End priest whose father was a director of a well-known London publishing company.
Patrick O’Hara’s previous novels are: The Wake of the Gertrude Luth; I Got No Brother; The Wohldorf Shipment; The Red Sailor; and The Yangtze Run. He now lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.