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Chinese Black Chamber, The: An Adventure in Espionage
Yardley, Herbert O. 1983 (Currently out of print). 225 pages.
Categories: Biographical, History |
Given the trouble Yardley nearly got into after writing "The American Black Chamber", this book
wasn't published for over 40 years after its completion. Yardley recounts his experiences
helping the Chinese resist Japan from 1938 to 1940. The book is mostly the difficulties he
encountered while trying to set up a Black Chamber in China.
The culture begins to influence him, and he visits opium houses, bargains for family
daughters, and even shoots the hand of his chauffeur who's eavesdropping outside his
window. A one point he recommends that a traitor he discovered is assassinated and creates
a silencer (which the Chinese had not yet seen) for that task. Not nearly as much crypto
explanation as in the "The American Black Chamber", but in this one he still does his fair
share of ferreting out spies and the like.
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