Howard Turk: 10 books

Shanghai, International Settlement, 1925. At a Chinese opera, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate sits in a choice private box. Suddenly the door opens, gun fire booms out, and two people with him are dead. But the police cannot go beyond its borders to find the killer. Jake steps into that breach....

On an otherwise quiet summer evening, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate, is nearly gunned down on the steps of his fashionable casino. Inches away, a powerful and influential warlord is killed. The warlord had just left a secret meeting with Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, aimed...

Jake Greenberg, an ex-pat who lived in Shanghai before the Japanese Army marched in, is now a major in the US Army Air Corps serving in China. He is ordered to go behind the lines into the occupied city. Some thing has gone wrong with the escape line that has saved downed American airmen. He is to...

Shanghai 1937. One sultry evening, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate and owner of a fashionable casino, leaves a restaurant in a section of the city filled with Jewish refugees who have fled from Hitler. The refugees, made homeless and destitute by the Nazis, have come to Shanghai because it...

Mao-lin, China, October, 1921. China is in chaos. Warlords have carved the country into warring fiefdoms. Treachery and slippery loyalties are everywhere. Jake Greenberg, a wounded veteran of WWI, and his Chinese partner, Chen, have just run a boat full of weapons up the Yangtze to Mao-lin. The port...

Shanghai, 1941. Invasion fears grip the International Settlement. The Japanese Army, which controls all of Shanghai except for the International Settlement and the French Concession, is on the move. Jake Greenberg, an American expatiate, and his Chinese partner run a boutique casino in the Settlement...

Shanghai, 1929. War in Asia is on the horizon. Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, the biggest players in the city, are already fighting secret battles, each trying to gain the advantage and willing do anything to get it.  The British Secret Service has hatched a daring plan to steal the...

China, 1926. Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate and owner of a fashionable casino in Shanghai, arrives in Manchouli, a dusty little city straddling the Chinese-Russian border. Posing as a wine salesman and using a false passport supplied by British Intelligence, his mission is to smuggle two Russian...

Shanghai, 1932 The city is booming. It's the Paris of Asia—wealthy, sophisticated, and fun—the most international city in the Far East. But beneath the surface fear of war is mounting. With spies and counterspies on every side and their masters pressing hard for information, violence is...

The year is 1952. In the heat of a labor election one of the leading candidates is murdered. The next day a reporter for the local paper is also killed. With pressure mounting, the mayor and the police chief of Steel Town need a fall guy. The man they pick is Max Eisen, a young Jewish immigrant. To...