{"product_id":"9781398519787","title":"Shanghai : A gripping new wartime thriller from 'the most accomplished spy novelist working today' (Sunday Times)","description":"Heart-poundingly suspenseful\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape\u003cb\u003eLEE CHILD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully atmospheric and intricately plotted, this masterful thriller marks exciting new ground for an author hailed by the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e as ';the most accomplished spy novelist working today'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR JOSEPH KANON:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kanon is fast approaching the complexity and relevance not just of le Carre and Greene but even of Orwell\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Kanon continues to demonstrate that he is up there with the very best . . . he isthe master of the shadows of the era\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sensational!No one writes period fiction with the same style and suspense  not to mention substance  as Joseph Kanon\u003cb\u003eScott Turow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thoroughly absorbing, a thoughtful and subtle evocation of a place and era\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theperfect combination of intrigue and accurate history\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ebrought to life\u003cb\u003eAlan Furst\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45471291801821,"sku":"9781398519787","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781398519787.jpg?v=1720201447","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781398519787","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}