Peter the Brazen

An American adventure novel. Peter Moore, a wireless operator on the Pacific liners, has the sharpest ears in his trade. In the Chinese quarter of San Francisco, a woman throws him a note from a window, ordering him to keep away and naming a distant city: Len Yang. A call for help in Morse code, a kidnapped young American woman, an escape by sampan on a river near Shanghai draw him towards the domain of the “Gray Dragon”, a master of cinnabar mines. A fast-paced mystery story, set in China at the start of the twentieth century.