New York: PublicAffairs, May 2001. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good. Unmarked. Interior pristine. Spine tight, but creased and cocked. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 217 pages.

John Quincy Watson was a young bomber pilot flying the new B-29 Superfortress in a mission over Japan when he was shot down and taken prisoner. Designated a "special prisoner," as were all Allied airmen, he, along with his comrades, suffered and almost indescribably brutal POW experience under a vicious camp commandant that Watson, with his friends, dubs the "the Hyena." When a chance encounter years after the war brings Watson, now Bishop Watson, into contact with a man he believes to be the Hyena, the Bishop must struggle with an anger and a desire for vengeance he thought he had long put aside. The Special Prisoner is a taut and dramatic novel.

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Bookseller: Books of the World (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RWARE0000003086
Title: The Special Prisoner
Author: Jim Lehrer
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Paperback
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1586480421
ISBN 13: 9781586480424
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: May 2001
Keywords: fiction, contemporary, psychological, military, prisoners, revenge, war, World War 2, WW2, World War II, WWII, bishops, Japan
Bookseller catalogs: Military and Defense; Fiction; Asia;
Size: 8vo

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