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Peter the Brazen

George Worts

Peter the Brazen

Paper book: €46.99

Digital: €12.99

Original publication
1919
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
750
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Adventure, Children's Literature
Moods
Escape it all
Translated from
English

Book summary

Peter Moore, a wireless operator on Pacific liners, has the sharpest ear in the trade. In San Francisco's Chinatown, a woman throws him a note from a window ordering him to keep away. Soon he picks up a call for help in Morse code, and a young American woman is kidnapped. The adventure takes him all the way to a river near Shanghai, towards the domain of the “Grey Dragon”, a powerful mine owner.

A fast-moving mystery in early twentieth-century China, with a hero who has more daring than caution.

Its fast pace and direct sentences make it easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A call for help picked up by radio at sea. Peter Moore is a radio operator on Pacific liners. His hearing is so sharp that he picks up messages no one else can hear.

The world of the book

China in the early days of radio. The book came out in 1919. At the time, great liners linked San Francisco to China.

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