China, 1927, is the world of Malcolm Bosse's The Warlord, a saga as awesome in scale as the land with which it deals, as rich, as varied, as deep, and as brilliant. China in 1927 is emerging turbulently into the modern world, its ancient foundations buckling upward, it's surface crossed and crisscrossed by international adventurers and provocateurs and opportunists. China in 1927 is a dazzling promise of wealth and empire awaiting only the boldest hand.