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Quin’s Shanghai Circus which contains a graphic description of the horrors of the Japanese assault on the Chinese city of Nanking, is without a doubt an impressive work of story telling, although the novel is set mostly in Japan and China, Whittemore’s approach more resembles the intricacies of the most ornate Islamic scripts.

In which one wonders how anyone could manage to unravel a text from the twists and coils and overlapping strokes. It’s not surprising that he shifted his setting to the Middle East after this book. Whittemore spent some years working in the Far East for the CIA, doing just what is never revealed. NeglectedBooks.

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