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City of Masks : A Novel of Shanghai

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A terrific read, full of surprises-an action-packed story of grifters, gangsters, and spies in WWII Shanghai.

World War II-era international Shanghai is a city of refugees, grifters, gangsters, and spies.

Obermann, on the run from the US, is one of them, quickly enmeshed in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Green Gang gangsters. Recruited by the OSS for an underground role in an ingenious plot to sabotage the local German-Japanese Axis war effort, he is on his own in a perilous kabuki dance of pretense and deceit, navigating the local Nazi leadership and the Japanese Kempeitai hot on his heels.

A daring prison escape of Allied POWs goes off the rails, and when the OSS plot is betrayed, it's up to Obermann and Steffi, a mysterious Jewish refugee, to save it from disaster.

In a thrilling, last-minute, desperate effort, Obermann and Steffi must find a way to warn the Americans while saving Shanghai's Jewish refugees from the Nazi Holocaust.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798904670139
  • ISBN-10: 9798904670139
  • Publisher: Post Hill Press
  • Publish Date: October 2026
  • Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
  • Page Count: 334

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