Shanghai Station
By Bartle Bull.
Description
A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the successes of his popular African novels A Cafe on the Nile and The Devil’s Oasis with an equally compelling tale of political terror and personal vengeance that unfolds in China’s colorful, turbulent port city of Shanghai. Revolution has been born in China by 1918, where Mao Tse-tung and the Soviet agent Mikhail Borodin stir the peasantry with oratory and the Communist dream. Their fiery words reach Jessica James, too, as do the machinations of the ruthless Russian commissar Viktor Polyak, who makes this reb...
ISBN(s)
0786713143, 9780786713141
