‘Imagine a person, tall, lean, and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan…’. London, 1933—the era of World War II and global chaos. A time of shadows, secret societies, and dens filled with opium addicts. Into this world comes the most fantastic emissary of evil society has ever known… Fu-Manchu. A mysterious epidemic appears on the French Riviera. When the French authorities call upon Dr. Petrie, his discoveries cause him to summon Sir Denis Nayland-Smith. For their eternal foe, Dr. Fu-Manchu, is now trafficking in the deadliest form of biological warfare.summoned to help stop his arch-foe before he can succeed in spreading his plague across Europe.
Circa l’autore
Sax Rohmer was the acclaimed author of the Fu Manchu series of novels. The first, The Mystery of Fu Manchu, was published in 1912 with many more following. Rohmer also wrote more traditional detective stories and supernatural horror. He died in London in 1959.
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