Shanghai, Joseph KanonIn this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting pre World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business. A love affair against all odds, a city dancing on the rim of a volcanoShanghai is the story of a political haven that becomes a minefield of conflicting loyalties. After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now

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