An American adventurer agrees to help a Chinese village flee Red China by captaining them in an old ferryboat through the Straights of Formosa—better known as Blood Alley—to the freedom of Hong Kong.
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Sid Fleischman has won awards for his young adult novels, but started his career writing hardboiled thrillers in the 1950s for publishers like Gold Medal. Blood Alley was filmed with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall based on Fleischman’s screenplay, but he also wrote The Deadly Companions for the Sam Peckinpah western.
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