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1) Saint Jack
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Jack Flowers knew he needed to shake things up when he jumped into the Straits of Malacca and hitched a ride to Singapore. Deftly identifying the fastest route to fame along the seedy port, Jack starts hiring girls out to lonely tourists, sailors, bachelors - anyone with some loose change and a wandering eye - soon making enough money to open two pleasure palaces. But just as Jack is finally coming into his own, a shocking tumble toward the brink...
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English
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Chronicles the friendship between writer Paul Theroux and V.S. Naipaul and discusses how the two friends met, how the friends influenced each other's writing, how the friendship lasted more than thirty years, and what caused the two friends to end their friendship.
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