IN 1941, John Reeves was posted as the British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macau. The Japanese had declared war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal was neutral, Macau was left alone and became a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca surrounded by Japanese-occupied China.

Reeves, a lonely and awkward man, finds himself the only senior representative of the Allies within thousands of miles. He runs spy rings, collects intelligence, smuggles people to freedom, takes care of refugees and is threatened with assassination — and "The Good War of Consul Reeves" tells his story.

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