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Golden Temptress (1948) by Charles Grayson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Golden Temptress (1948) about?
Golden Temptress (original title The Broken Gate, 1948) byCharles Grayson (Charles Wright Gray). Jack Shepherd, a grade-A heel, is afreelance writer and an adventurer in foreign lands where he hopes to make somemoney, legal or otherwise. He travels with two companions: Frenchman Jean-LouisLemar, his personal valet, etc., and a beautiful Canadian singer, Peggy George.They are in Saigon on what he believes is to assure a liquor smuggler that abuyer has the money for the product. It’s all a scam, and the shipment isweapons for rebels. However, now he’s not so sure of the deal. But whenShepherd meets the buyer, the beautiful Bijou, a Eurasian, whose father wasFrench and her mother Vietnamese, he learns she doesn’t have the money. Vietnamis under French colonialism at present, but war is threatened, and InspectorDuphaine has an idea Shepherd is up to no good. He senses what it is all about.Different angles, different sides, each ready to double-cross the others. Theytravel to Pnom-Penh, Cambodia in search of a treasure temple in the jungle nearAngkor, the fabled Emerald Buddha of Yacodharapura. And Shepherd is as bad asthe rest. In the story, Sheppard meets the King of Cambodia; in trut
Who reads Golden Temptress (1948)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles Grayson
- Published
- 1948
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
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