Burning Bridges

New York City.
The summer is a scorcher.
And a killer is about to turn up the heat.
Moments after giving a rousing speech, a prominent businessman lies dead on a dark Brooklyn street, shot twice through the head...

While their parents turn a blind eye, the sons and daughters of the wealthy slip away to the opium dens of Chinatown, indulging in a decadence more dangerous than they know...

And the disappearance of a young girl is only the beginning of a harrowing odyssey that leads to a city's most shocking secrets...

Now, in a city on the edge, Harper's Weekly editor Marshall Webb and reformer Rebecca Davies are in a race against time, putting together the pieces of a puzzle that could expose a hidden world of vice and corruption, where everything has a price and someone is guilty of murder...