Shanghai Station - Softcover

Bull, Bartle

3.92

224 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786714867 ISBN 13: 9780786714865

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 2004

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A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the successes of his popular Africa trilogyA Cafe on the Nile, The White Rhino Hotel, and The Devil's Oasiswith a rousing historical adventure. Shanghai Station is a compelling tale of political terror and personal vengeance that unfolds in 1918 in China's colorful, turbulent port city of Shanghai. Well-born Alexander Karlov arrives in Shanghai with a mission, for the Bolsheviks have brutally killed his mother and abducted his twin sister. Vengeance commands Alexander's soul. It also entangles him in perilous allianceswith the Cossack hit man Ivan Semyonov; with Mei-lan, a woman who knows Shanghai's darkest secrets; with "Big Ear," leader of the city's most powerful Triad; with the French police; and with a spirited young American woman who calls herself Jesse James."

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"Bull is back with another bloody good atmospheric...historic swashbuckler."

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