Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service

by Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.

Book Overview

The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the paramilitary units of the Blue Shirts and of the dreaded Military Statistics Bureau: the world's largest spy and counterespionage organization of its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520234073
• ISBN13: 9780520234079
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"