![]() ![]() Beggars abound, near the dealers and bootleggers in the shadows, selling fake heroin pills and bootleg samogon Russian vodka, distilled in alleyways, that just might leave you blind. Barkers for the strip shows and porno flicks up the alleyways guarantee genuine French celluloid of the filthiest kind. The Chinese hawkers do no better with their porno cards of naked dyed blondes, Disney characters in lewd poses, and bare-arsed Chinese girls, all underage. Half-crazy American missionaries try to sell him Bibles printed on rice paper-saving souls in the Badlands is one tough beat. Their numbers rise as the Japs turn the screws on Shanghai ever tighter. He’s accosted constantly: casino touts, hustling pimps, dope dealers monkeys on chains, dancing dogs, kids turning tumbles, Chinese ‘look see’ boys offering to watch your car. He walks round to the Avenue Haig strip and encounters the playground of Shanghai’s crackpots, cranks, gondoos, and lunatics. Standing on the corner of the Great Western and Edinburgh Roads, a sideshow, a carnival of the doped, the beaten, and the crazed. Treasury agent, but he knows the men he wants are its denizens. ![]() The Western Roads are outside his remit as a U.S. “Little Nicky heads to the Badlands to see the show for himself. ![]()
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