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China Series #3
Red Dawn
China 1926.Widow, Joan Carter travels to China with the intention of researching her next book documenting the life and death of the Dowager Empress.What she doesn’t expect is to fall in love again.Geoffrey Marne is everything she doesn’t want in a man. But the attraction is unavoidable.However, fate cruelly separates them when they have finally succumbed to their feelings for each other.In the midst of war, they are torn apart by opposing factions.Can Joan escape when the Chinese kidnap her?Or survive the torture inflicted by the Japanese?And if so… will she ever be reunited with Geoffrey?Follow Joan’s struggles as she battles for survival in a country divided, where violence is rampant and enemies are in every direction.“Red Dawn” is a heart-wrenching romance which will possess you from the first page and written by a master of the genre.Praise for Christopher‘His backgrounds are vivid and the characters authentic … a robust tale, vigorously told…’ Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph.‘Well-researched…Evocative descriptions of scenery and edifices, and exact period dialogue’ Historical Novels SocietyChristopher Nicole (born 1930) was brought up in British Guyana and the West Indies. His output of books, under his own name and several pennames, has been prolific. Much of his work is historical, and many are set in the Caribbean.Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
1 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1985
About the author
Christopher Nicole
225 books58 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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October 13, 2022
The long walk
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. A large army left to try and get to safe lands not all made it. The war between China and Japan was on the cards did the 2 faction join forces to beat the Japanese.
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. A large army left to try and get to safe lands not all made it. The war between China and Japan was on the cards did the 2 faction join forces to beat the Japanese.
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