JOSEPH KANON’s Shanghai: A Novel chronicles one man’s escape to Shanghai during a time when European Jews were desperate to emigrate after the violence of Kristallnacht. Daniel arrives penniless in the tumultuous, nearly lawless city and becomes trapped in Shanghai’s maze of politics and crime, trying to stay one step ahead of murder while outrunning his own past. JEFF SHAARA’s The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis brings to life the war that almost happened between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, we hear many perspectives and voices, from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the Kennedy brothers to the U.S. Navy commanders whose ships are sent to “quarantine” Cuba.
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