Rocket Crockett and The Shanghai She-Devil

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By Christopher Chambers ’82

Published Jan. 21, 2016

In this homage to 1950s pulp fiction, Lt. Rufus “Rocket” Crockett battles gangsters on the streets of Harlem, assassins in the High Sierras, and MiGs in the skies over the South China Sea toward a showdown with the Shanghai She-Devil. Chambers is a professor of law at Georgetown and an author of mysteries.

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