Detective Isaac Bell is on the hunt for justice in this extraordinary
adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
It is 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing--even as millions still
imbibe and ruthless criminals get rich overnight by selling them booze.
Cops, Feds, and Coast Guardsmen are all susceptible to bribery. But when
Bell's boss and lifelong friend Joseph Van Dorn is shot and near-fatally
wounded while chasing bootleggers, he enters the fray.
Bell promises Van Dorn that he will try to save the detective agency
from the corrupting effects of Prohibition. But when the first witness
to Van Dorn's shooting is executed in a ruthlessly efficient manner
invented by the CHEKA, the Russian Communist secret police, Bell finds
himself combating men far more deadly than ordinary criminals. And he's
about to fight a one-man war...