Flying Hero Class
Thomas Keneally. Warner Books, $17.99 (308pp) ISBN 978-0-446-39347-8
A jet carrying an Australian aboriginal dance troupe and its white tour manager is hijacked. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 02/03/1992
Genre: Fiction
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