From award-winning and bestselling author Taras Grescoe comes a highly compelling and bestselling account of the high life in Shanghai just before the Second World WarFinalist for the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-FictionOn the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous point for many of the 20th century’s most outlandish adventurers, who all congregated under the watchful eye of t