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It is 1904. At the age of fortytwo the handsome and influential Australian George Morrison Peking correspondent for The Times of London is considered the most eligible Western bachelor in China. But Morrison has yet to meet his match until one night where the Great Wall meets the sea he encounters Mae Perkins the ravishing and freespirited daughter of a California millionaire and a turbulent affair begins. War meanwhile has broken out between Russia and Japan for domination over northeast China. Morrisons colleague Lionel James has an idea that will revolutionise war correspondence. But the Russians the Japanese and even The Timess own editor it seems would rather see James hung from the nearest yardarm. James believes that only Morrison can help. Just as Mae seems to be slipping away from him Jamess quest propels Morrison into her magnetic orbit once more. Inspired by a true story A Most Immoral Woman is a surprising witty and erotic tale of sexual and other obsessions set in the floating world of Westerners in China and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. At its heart stands an original and devastatingly honest woman as seen from the perspective of the extraordinary man who was drawn to love her.