About
Peter Rose is the author of "The Good War of Consul Reeves," the story of Macau during the Second World War, told through the eyes of the British Consul stationed there at the time. (Blacksmith Books, Hong Kong)
He is a graduate of The George Washington University and The Yale Law School. He is also a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and a retired partner at Blackstone. It was during a posting in Hong Kong that he first got interested in Macau and its history.
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The Good War of Consul Reeves
Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China.
The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca surrounded by Japanese-occupied China.
Reeves, a lonely and awkward man, finds himself the only senior representative of the Allies within a radius of thousands of miles. He runs spy rings, collects intelligence, smuggles people to freedom, takes care of refugees and is threatened with assassination – and The Good War of Consul Reeves tells his story.
