The Headmaster's Wager Condition:Well Read The Magus is a feast

The Magus is a feast for the mind and the senses

military manuals

They restore to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form

A symbol of mythic potency

and its ultimate destruction that much more fascinating

The Headmaster's Wager Condition:Well Read The Magus is a feastA superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting debut novel about one mans loyalty to his country, his family and his heritage. Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English academy in 1960s Saigon, and he is well accustomed to bribing a forever changing list of government officials in order to maintain the elite status of his school. Fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage, he is quick to spot the business opportunities