The City of Devils Comes to the Suzhou Bookworm – 19/3/18
Posted: March 18th, 2018 | No Comments »Monday, March 19, 7pm
CITY OF DEVILS: A SHANGHAI NOIR
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Paul French
It’s time to go back and explore Shanghai’s Badlands…
Immerse yourself in 1940’s Shanghai with this astonishing story of two men whose lives intertwine in crime and twisted friendship. In a city under siege Viennese Joe Farren rose to fame by cashing in on Shanghai’s desperate pleasure seeking. King of the chorus lines, his name was splashed in neon across the infamous Badlands nightclub ‘Farren’s’. American fugitive Jack Riley, his fingertips acid-burnt found a future in Shanghai as ‘The Slots King’. ‘Dapper Joe’ and ‘Lucky Jack’ collided, clashed and came together again in a frantic struggle to survive the city’s last days. In City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir Paul French resurrects the denizens of old Shanghai’s ganglands, the drug-running, the gambling, and the graft, vividly restoring this long-overlooked side of the city’s history.
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This event will be in English.本活动为英文专场。
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