The Storm Flower: A World War II Thriller (English Edition)

The Storm Flower is the story of US Marine Captain Harry Wagner, trapped in a city that is about to become a killing field, and the woman he risks his life to save. The year is 1937. As the Empire of the Rising Sun expands its grip on China, Shanghai falls and a vengeful Japanese army closes in on the Chinese capital, Nanjing. Hundreds of thousands of terrified civilians cower within the ancient walled city, together with a handful of selfless foreigners - and Wagner. Intelligence signals warn of an impending bloodbath, but when the Americans pull out Wagner stays to protect the woman with whom he has fallen in love. Can the two of them survive the coming massacre? And if they do, can he save her from the horrors of sexual slavery as a Comfort Woman? From the louche glamour of 1930s Shanghai to the nightmarish "Rape of Nanking", the Storm Flower retells Asia's forgotten holocaust as a story of love that survives almost everything.