A spellbinding and dramatic account of Shanghai's lawless 1930s and two of its most notorious criminals, by the author of the prize winning Midnight in Peking A love song to Shanghai . . . Knowing, cynical, slangy and carrying a crafty sting in its tail, this is the voice in which City of Devils is narrated throughout, as though it's being told over strong drinks in a dive bar. French channels the hard-boiled prose of Chandler and Ellroy in a rhythmic, tough-guy patter . . . Recounts with great panache an extraordinary period