Blood Alley

Captain Tom Wilder is recruited to transport the people of Chiku Shan out of Red China to the British port of Hong Kong. Wilder must use a stolen, wood-burning, flat-bottomed, 19 Century stern-wheel riverboat. Villagers have been gradually raising the bottom of their harbor channel with stones in order to trap the local Red Chinese patrol boat, once it has been lured inside. The villagers have been quietly accumulating arms, ranging from Browning machine guns to Mosin–Nagant rifles and Nagant revolvers.