It is sometimes given the title Storm Over Shanghai, which reflects its basis in the Shanghai Revolution of 1927.  
Among the minor figures of this work are a Russian who chooses to be burned alive after giving his cyanide pill to fellow prisoners to prevent their execution, an old professor and opium addict who is able to help two of the principal characters, and the German wife of a revolutionary whose experiement in open marriage ends badly.  The main characters include an assassin who dies in a failed suicide bombing of Chiang Kai-Shek, the aformementioned revolutionary who later dies in custody, and a French arms smuggler and gambler who only barely escapes China alive. It is sometimes given the title Storm Over Shanghai, which reflects its basis in the Shanghai Revolution of 1927.  FTP, the lives of Katov, Old Gisors, his son Kyo and wife May, and the Baron de Clappique all feature in, FTP, what novel of Andre Malraux?
Among the minor figures of this work are a Russian who chooses to be burned alive after giving his cyanide pill to fellow prisoners to prevent their execution, an old professor and opium addict who is able to help two of the principal characters, and the German wife of a revolutionary whose experiement in open marriage ends badly.  
Man's Fate (accept La Condition Humaine; accept Storm over Shanghai before it is read)