Saint Jack

Saint Jack
	First edition cover (book) designed by Paul Bacon
Author	Paul Theroux
Language	English
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	June 1973
Publication place	United States
Pages	247

Saint Jack is a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux that was adapted into a 1979 film of the same name. It tells the life of Jack Flowers, a pimp in Singapore. Feeling hopeless and undervalued, Jack tries to make money by setting up his own bordello, and clashes with Chinese triad members in the process.

Film adaptation

A film adaptation directed by Peter Bogdanovich was released in 1979.

References

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v t e Paul Theroux
Novels	Waldo (1967) Jungle Lovers (1971) Saint Jack (1973) The Family Arsenal (1976) The Mosquito Coast (1981) Doctor Slaughter (1984) O-Zone (1986) My Secret History (1989) Millroy the Magician (1993) Kowloon Tong (1997) Blinding Light (2006)
Travel writing	The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) The Old Patagonian Express (1979) The Kingdom by the Sea (1983) Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992) The Pillars of Hercules (1995) Dark Star Safari (2002) Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (2008) Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads (2015) Figures in a Landscape: People and Places (2018)