The Good War of Consul Reeves - Rose, Peter
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In 1941, John Reeves is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao. The Japanese declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca surrounded by Japanese-occupied China. Reeves finds himself the only Allied representative within thousands of miles. He runs spy rings and smuggles refugees to freedom - and this is his story.

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Produktbeschreibung
In 1941, John Reeves is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao. The Japanese declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca surrounded by Japanese-occupied China. Reeves finds himself the only Allied representative within thousands of miles. He runs spy rings and smuggles refugees to freedom - and this is his story.
Autorenporträt
Peter Rose is a graduate of the George Washington University and the Yale Law School. He first practiced law in Washington DC. It was during a posting in Hong Kong with Goldman Sachs as its Asian Head of Public Affairs that he started to visit Macao - an hour's ferry-ride across the Pearl River delta from Hong Kong - and became fascinated with the story of this incongruous piece of Portugal on the edge of China.