Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amid the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to World War II. The story unfolds against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions and ideologies. Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the tragic saga is told in the context of the improbable story of the lives of the 20,000 Jews who called the city of Harbin home at the beginning of the twentieth century.