Print ISBN: 9780451095633

Language: English

FIC006000  –  Fiction / Espionage

HIS008000  –  History / Asia / China

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Shanghai - 1940's - World War II - a great port and international city occupied by the Japanese Army - a fabled mecca steeped in its vast complex history and overflowing with colorful exiles and conspirators and native Chinese and foreign patriots and traitors. An exciting metropolis teeming with lethal intrigue and overrun by danger; where double-dealing and treachery was the given and taken for granted... yet where a small group of brave and courageous men and women still dared to put their lives and fortunes at risk for the cause of freedom and liberty by defying their Japanese oppressors. This was wartime Shanghai, a city with little conscience where only a handful of men and women actually knew of the espionage ring operating in their midst since the war first began. One who knew was the very man responsible for organizing the Shanghai Ring - its cunning leader, Maximov Dallin, a shrewd hard-fisted White Russian exile and daring smuggler and masterful black marketeer, as adept at bartering food and luxury goods for gold, as he was trading the gold for valuable information vital to the Allied cause while managing to survive the daily perils of wartime Shanghai. Another was Dominique Torg, the spirited and beautiful blonde-haired daughter of a rich Norwegian shipping tycoon who discovered the bitter truth after her father had been executed by the Japanese Secret Police. Someone else who knew was Dominique's old flame, Robert Salat, Shanghai's stylish and incredibly handsome all powerful gangster boss. A legendary gunman and gambler who willingly ignored the odds and sacrificed everything to save the woman he still loved. And, finally, there was Colonel Hata, Dallin's notorious blackmarket partner and arch-foe. The tradition bound Japanese aristocrat and ruthless chief of the Kempetai (the Japanese Secret Police) who never suspecting how close he was to the Shanghai Ring's mastermind, In his fanatical and zealous determination to fulfill his duty to his Emperor waged a merciless investigation to uncover the Shanghai Ring until the final moment... when he was confronted by the undeniable dark reality of Japan's surrender and being condemned as a war criminal, Hata decided to make a fatal run for it - to escape by ship to South America with a cargo of precious rare Chinese antiquities aboard worth millions. This was the great port city of wartime Shanghai!

Barth Jules Sussman

Over the past several decades Barth Jules Sussman has lived and worked as an author and screenwriter in London, Paris, Rome, Cannes, Hollywood, Ibiza and Florida. He is the author of such historical novels as Shanghai and The Crooked Cross (New American Library/Signet Books); the western thriller L'Homme au Boulet Rouge (editions Gallimard-Paris) - (title in Germany- Der Mann mit der roten Kugel); the screwball black comedy novel Save Me Cosmos Black; Muggy The Happy Pug children's picture book series (Hachette Jeunesse-Paris) as well as the Muggy CD-ROM coloring book (Muggy Press) which were created along with his late wife Jen Sussman. Barth Jules Sussman has written over a twenty original screenplays, including The Stranger & The Gunfighter (AKA Blood Money) starring Lee Van Cleef and Night Games directed by Roger Vadim; The Zaharoff Dossier; Charleston & Savannah. A number of Barth Jules Sussman's scripts have been either purchased or produced by Columbia Pictures;Avco-Embassy; Dino DeLaurentiis; Carlo Ponti; Sir Run Run Shaw and Raymond Chow amongst others.