HIGH ROAD TO CHINA is a 1977 novel by award-winning Australian author Jon Cleary. Set in the 1920s, the plot concerns heiress Eve Tozer, whose father is kidnapped by a Chinese warlord.
In 1920 Eve Tozer, the attractive daughter of an American tycoon with huge trading interests in China, disembarks from her P&O liner at Tilbury and checks in at the Savoy.
It is at the hotel that Eve discovers that her father, Bradley, has been kidnapped by a Chinese warlord. Desperate to save him, Eve hires two pilots to help her fly from England to China. But can she deliver the ransom before it's too late?
- ISBN10 0006154832
- ISBN13 9780006154839
- Publish Date 27 December 1978 (first published 31 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 February 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English