Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
Fleeing from a scorned past,Catherine Merit struggles with her failing medical practice and a rich man's obsession of her.Book Four in the Indignities Series
“A great American writer has been born.” ~Jack Coombe, Historian and Novelist
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John Glavin is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves its history and its stories.
As a department chair for 25 years at Glenbrook North High School, he published textbooks on writing including one selling a total of 500,000 copies. After retiring he researched and collected over 100 books on the Columbian Exposition. He developed Trapped on the Wheel from 1994 to 2008 as a labor of love.
Currently, he is writing the sequel to Trapped on the Wheel about Alessandra and the Pullman Railroad Strike of 1894, entitled Striker!