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1930s: The seductive and corrupt world of 30s Shanghai
Shanghai
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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.
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Shanghai
The Shanghai of the 1930s – pre-World War II – 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 volcano— Shanghai is the story of a political haven that becomes a minefield of conflicting loyalties.
The story does start in Germany where one of the characters escapes the Nazi regime to flee to Shanghai.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Shanghai
Destination: Shanghai Author/guide: Joseph Kanon Departure Time: 1939
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