The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
PublicAffairs, April 2023. Hardcover. The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express-style adventure, set in China's republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the..... More