Shanghai

Shanghai

by Joseph Kanon
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/05/2024

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'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST


'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILD


Daniel Lohr, sensing that the Nazis are closing in on the Jews, leaves his dying father in Berlin and boards a ship to Shanghai. His passage is dependent upon him delivering a package to his shady uncle, his father’s brother, upon arrival. Daniel has no idea what the package contains. On board is Leah, also fleeing the Nazis. She and Daniel conduct a passionate but brief shipboard affair, but are separated as soon as the ship docks in Shanghai. Will he ever see her again?


Daniel is immediately plunged into his uncle’s seductive and corrupt world, and becomes involved in the launch of a new nightclub, the biggest, best and most glitzy in town. When violence breaks out and lives are at risk, he finds himself drawn irrevocably into the terrifying underworld that is wartime Shanghai.


Beautifully atmospheric and intricately plotted, this masterful thriller marks exciting new ground for an author hailed by the Sunday Times as ‘the most accomplished spy novelist working today’.


PRAISE FOR JOSEPH KANON:


'Kanon is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of le Carré and Greene but even of Orwell' New York Times


'Joseph Kanon continues to demonstrate that he is up there with the very best . . . he is the master of the shadows of the era' The Times


'Sensational! No one writes period fiction with the same style and suspense – not to mention substance – as Joseph Kanon' Scott Turow


'Thoroughly absorbing, a thoughtful and subtle evocation of a place and era' Sunday Telegraph


'The perfect combination of intrigue and accurate historybrought to life' Alan Furst

ISBN:
9781398519794
9781398519794
Category:
Espionage & spy thriller
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-05-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster UK
Joseph Kanon

Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award–winning author of Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. He lives in New York City.

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