The swiftest eagle
By: by Alice Dwyer-Joyce.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
First sentence: There is an island called Turnish in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland and I always look on it as the isle of running water.
Description: From the cover: Danger is always with us and fear around the corner. There is a look in at Scotland and then we are in Malaya, before British Raj and now. Later we are to travel through war-torn Vietnam and Cambodia.
Virginia meets Gareth casually in the Western Isles, with no inkling of the sacrifice he must make for her. Maybe Rat Ferguson steals the whole story in his old paddle steamer the Queen Victoria, as he sails down the Mekong River, across the delta and out on the China seas...with flammable cargo.