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A superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one man's loyalty to his country, his family and his history. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the very most respected British academy in 1960s Saigon, and he's well familiar with bribing a forever-changing set of government officials to be able to maintain the elite position of his university. Fiercely pleased with his Chinese history, he's quick to identify the business opportunities rife in a divided country, though he also harbors a weakness for gaming haunts and the ladies who frequent them. He devotedly ignores all information of the fighting that swirls around him, however when his only boy gets in trouble with the Vietnamese government bodies, Percival faces the limitations of his relationships and wealth and is also forced to send him away. Inside the loneliness that follows, Percival discovers solace in Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of merged French and Vietnamese history whom he is able to confide in. But Percival's new-found delight is precarious, so that the complexities of war encroach further into his world, he must confront the tragedy of most he has refused to see. Graced with intriguingly flawed but wonderfully human being characters moving by having a richly drawn historical surroundings, The Headmaster's Bet is an unforgettable report of love, betrayal and sacrifice.
