Howard Turk

• Oct-2021
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Jake Greenberg is on his way to Shanghai. He has a new job after years of fighting in World War One and the Russian Civil War. But he is caught up in a bloody gunfight with the Japanese Secret Police. With two new friends---an English woman photograp...

• Apr-2018
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Shanghai, 1932 The city is booming. It's the Paris of Asia--wealthy, sophisticated, and fun--the most international city in the Far East. But beneath the surface fear of war is mounting. With spies and counterspies on every side and their masters...

• Jun-2016
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Jake Greenberg, who lived in Shanghai before World War II, is now a major in the US Army in China. He is ordered into Japanese-occupied Shanghai to find what has gone wrong with the escape line that has saved downed American airmen. He is to find wha...

• Sep-2014
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Shanghai, 1941. Jake Greenberg, an American expatiate, owns a casino in the International Settlement. Certain Japanese officers want it. Jake barely escapes a bombing, one of his casino people is murdered by the Japanese, and a newspaper friend is ki...

• Jul-2013
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China, 1926. Jake Greenberg, an American living in Shanghai, arrives in Manchouli, a dusty little city straddling the Chinese-Russian border. Jake's mission is to smuggle two Russians across the border into China. They have a secret that the communis...

• Feb-2013
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Shanghai, International Settlement, 1925. At a Chinese opera, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate sits in a choice private box. Suddenly the door opens, gun fire booms out, and two people with him are dead. But the police cannot go beyond its bord...

• Apr-2012
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Shanghai, 1929. Jake Greenberg, the owner of a fashionable casino, is drawn into a daring British plot to steal a Japanese Enigma machine. The plan fails. Agents are murdered and Jake pursues the traitor who killed them. ...

• Nov-2010
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1952. In the heat of a labor election, a leading candidate and a local reporter are murdered. The police arrest Max Eisen, a young and poor Jewish immigrant working in a steel mill. But Max finds allies. A famous lawyer helps him and his beautiful da...

• Jul-2010
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Shanghai, 1923. Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate, is nearly gunned down on the steps of his fashionable casino. Inches away, a powerful warlord is killed. The police show little interest. Looking into the murder, Jake meets Claire Turner, a sav...

• Aug-2009
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China, 1921. Jake Greenberg has just delivered guns to Mao-lin. War is imminent and the city has been shaken by the brutal murder of a famous American missionary. Jake must find the murderer as enemy airplanes begin bombing the city....

• Oct-2008
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Winter, 1919, Siberia in the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Jake Greenberg, investigating the murder of three Americans, escapes on the last train from Omsk on the Transsiberian RR, fighting blizzards, and partisans, while hunting the murderer on bo...

• Oct-2008
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1937. Jewish refugees flood Shanghai. One of them, a Jewish scientist carrying stolen Nazi secrets, is pursued by the local Gestapo. He, his young daughter, and a brave American woman must escape violence and intrigue and get to America....