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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Still on Clavell: there's this odd thing about Whirlwind where he pulled a small section out and published it as Escape. Both books are now available as e-books.
But is there anything in Escape that isn't also in Whirlwind? I thought Escape was basically the Reader's Digest Condensed Books version of Whirlwind?
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Sort of.
Apparently, _Escape_ was an attempt to re-work _Whirlwind_ so as to create a story amenable to showing on television as a mini-series (per the top review at Amazon.com), so much of it is a repeat of the latter, but apparently the ending is different?