Hour of the dog — Berkley Mather

A book in the Stafford Family series. From dust jacket flap: The Hour of the Dog--twilight by the ancient Chinese--epitomizes Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from Christmas 1941 until August 1945. For the British and Chinese populations, herded into military or civilian camps, it was a time of danger, suffering, and humiliation. Some, however, made their escape through the enemy lines into the hinterland, and though many died en route, a few survived to reach Chungking, headquarters of Chiang Kai-Shek in China rent by civil war and Japanese invasion. Among the survivors were Vincent Stafford, descendant of the princely house of Stafford and McMurtrie, and Shivka, the beautiful White Russian who lived on borrowed time and worked for Allied Intelligence..This is a riveting, intriguing and fascinating in its details novel of the China of Chiang and Mao. A tense atmospheric thriller and a tale of war, love, and espionage that will not soon be forgotten...