Book description
Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.
'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich as its
climate was steamy, its future as assured as it was busy. And those
days were made even better when, as was inevitable, I fell in love
with the Chinese beauty of Julie Soong and, against all unwritten
canons of Singapore life, we became lovers.'
Noel Barber has enchanted millions of readers with his six
bestselling novels. In these powerfully exotic novels he drew upon his
own experience as one of the leading foreign correspondents from the 40s
to the 60s working on the
Daily Mail
. He was the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott, was
stabbed five times while covering the wars in Morocco and was shot
during the Hungarian uprising. He died in 1988.
