What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 27, 2020?

[Staph]

29. The last of James Clavell's Asian Saga - Whirlwind

It takes place in Iran after the Shah leaves, as Ayatollah Khomeini takes over, before the American hostage crisis. The viewpoint characters are owners and employees of an Anglo-Iranian helicopter company that flies supplies and personnel to oil rigs and timber camps. And as with his other books, there are characters and descendants of characters from the previous books.

It's interesting to read the British viewpoint of the fall of the Shah. Clavell, through his British, European and Japanese characters puts the blame on President Carter. Clavell seems to have been a free trade capitalist, with just a touch of libertarianism.

I will have to do some research after I finish to remember what really happened.