The Last Marco Polo (ePub)

The Last Marco Polo is a historical fiction takes place in 1937 Shanghai. It is a love story about a young American banker and a beautiful Chinese girl; it is also an adventure story into one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history. As his journey takes him from the safety of the British-controlled Shanghai into war-torn China, Jack saw not just the horrors of war but also discovered compassion and love.
The story begins with Jack took on an overseas bank assignment in Shanghai, the exciting Pearl of the Orient. While there, he met Lee Li-wha, who works at his father's church. As his love for her began to germinate, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and their lives were quickly thrown together as they tried to help many people made homeless by the fighting. When Jack tried to help her ex-betrothed escape from the city, they were captured and brought to Nanking by the Japanese Imperial Army; there, they witnessed the brutalities of the "Nanking Massacre," and saw the courage and compassion in an unlike hero---John Rabe, a member of the Nazi Party.
As their adventures took them through some of the actual historical events, to places that no longer exist, and into the lives long forgotten, Jack and Lee Li-wha had found the true meaning of love. But in the end, the fate that had brought them together, history kept them apart; love was found, then lost.