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City of Devils
Location(s): Shanghai
Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
Era(s): 1930s-1940s
City of Devils is a dramatic non-fiction account of Shanghai’s lawless 1930s – but such a gripping read, as if James Ellroy had stumbled into a Shanghai cathouse. Before the Japanese invaded, outlaws from all over the world escaping fascism, communism and the law flooded to its glittering ballrooms and casinos. Two characters – ‘Lucky’ Jack Riley and dancer ‘Dapper’ Joe Farren – bestrode the Badlands like kings. But Shanghai couldn’t be their playground forever, and a violent end to their reigns of terror loomed. Nobody knows Shanghai like Paul French, bestselling author of Midnight in Peking, a global bestseller and Radio 4 book of the week, who lived there for ten years and has probed all its darkest corners and brightest ballrooms.
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