商品簡介
Two fast-paced, cinematic thrillers from the 1950s. Shanghai Flame is set in the newly-established Communist China and involves a newspaperman who is trying to rescue a former-lover who is not entirely sure she wants to be rescued. Counterspy Express is a race across Europe as a U.S. spy is tries to locate a defecting Russian scientist before the Reds catch up with him first.
作者簡介
Sid Fleischman, born Albert Sidney Fleischman in Brooklyn March 16, 1920, was no newcomer to adventure and mystery when he first began to write as A. S. Fleischman in the late 1940’s. He began his professional life as a vaudeville magician and adventured around the Far East in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A novelist, screenwriter and playwright, he is also notable as a Newbery Medal winning author of children's books. Fleischman lived in Santa Monica, California, and passed away there on March 17, 2010.