Pawns: The Paperback Novel - Paperback

by Steve Koch (Illustrator), Steve Shapiro (Author)

It's Pap. Set in San Francisco at the unsuspected end of World War II, the fictionalized story based on two true events. This is a sensual, social intrigue in a Chinese gambling parlor, from the effete streets and into the newsroom of the San Francisco Chronicle. Reporter Don Day writes about west coast finance, of murder, arms dealing and the unvealing of the actual story behind the Rosenberg treason scandal that ended with their exicution in Sing Sing prision after the A-Bomb brought an end to WW II, in Japan.

Author Biography

Steve Shapiro is an historian, journalist and screenwriter who has converted for the first time one of his screenplays. Taking out scenes from the screenplay caused frustration in this complex story, so all abridged material has been worked back into this first time novel.