Shanghai A Novel
eBook - 2024
"A steamy, thrilling crime story" (The Washington Post) from New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon set in pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just the cost of doing business.After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety. Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Ges...tapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation that turns unexpectedly passionate. But even lucky refugees have to...
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Scribner
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- English
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File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9781668006443 |
Release Date | 6/25/2024 |
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ASIN | B0CL5FLVLH |
Release Date | 6/25/2024 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781668006443 |
Release Date | 6/25/2024 |