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2) Amelia
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Amelia Earhart, the famed aviatrix, vanished somewhere in the south Pacific during her attempt to fly around the world in her specially modified Lockheed Electra in July 1937. "Lost at sea" is the official story. The U. S. Navy was not convinced. The director of the Office of Naval Intelligence tasked his operations officer with uncovering the details of Earhart’s disappearance. His extensive research engendered more questions about government involvement...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's 1923 and China is in chaos--a weak central government, battling war lords, and bandit gangs riven the country. SUN MEI-YAO, a cashiered Nationalist Army officer, regularly plunders prizes with his military expertise. Tonight his goal is the elite British train, the Shanghai Express with its wealthy Occidental passengers--not effete ne'ar do wells but rogues, killers, spies, and harlots.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1917. Empress Alexandra understands that the Bolsheviks will soon topple the Czar. She charges her godson, Kirik Pirogov, to carry the imperial crown of Catherine the Great and a cache of Romanov jewelry to a secret refuge in western China along with her daughter, Anastasia.
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