The China Alamo - Hock Hochheim - Bog

"It's 1900. Three young doctors celebrate their graduation from medical school with a dinner on the San Francisco docks--until they're kidnapped and shanghaied to China. The doctors' families are rich, and they entice Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into organizing a secret rescue mission. Teddy dispatches his former Cuban War veteran officer, Major Gunther, from the Philippines to run the top-secret mission, but not without first destroying the rotten shanghai operation on the bay"--Back cover.