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    Flying Hero Class

    Thomas Keneally

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    When Palestinian guerillas hijack a flight from New York to Frankfurt, they find an Aboriginal dance troupe among the passengers. Similarly dispossessed of their land, whose side will the Aborigines take? Conflicts of loyalty, terror and revolutionary fervour form the explosive ingredients in this riveting and thought-provoking novel.

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    Praise for Flying Hero Class

    • Once you start reading, you can't put it down - Guardian

    • As an intellectual piece of suspense, Flying Hero Class can hardly be surpassed - Observer

    • Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat . . . by the time the narrative puts its breaks on, you find he has navigated his fast-moving thriller over an impressive amount of thematic territory - The Sunday Times

    • Enthralling . . . ranks with Keneally's Booker-winning best - Daily Mail

    • A novel of great scope, intelligence and humanity - The Scotsman

    • A fast, memorable read . . . when we look at the century in retrospect, he will emerge as one of the great writers - Literary Review

    • A smooth and elevated entertainment - Independent

    • The reader's anxiety is awoken soon after take-off and is kept to a high pitch throughout - The Times

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    Thomas Keneally

    Thomas Keneally

    Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published more than thirty novels since. They include Schindler's Ark, which won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was subsequently made into the film Schindler's List, and The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates and Gossip From The Forest, each of which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including his memoir Homebush Boy, Searching for Schindler and Australians. He is married with two daughters and lives in Sydney.

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