Publisher's Synopsis
"A brilliant spy novel and madcap adventure story from the author of The Torqued Man, set in San Francisco and the Asian Pacific during the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1939, the clouds of war are gathering. Richard Halifax-a man of much bravado, master of misadventure, and writer of the breeziest of prose styles-vanishes in the Pacific. Halifax was attempting to sail a Chinese junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco as part of the World's Fair festivities on Treasure Island. But from the moment he is declared dead, his machinations live on, upending the lives of those left in his wake back home. Hildegard Rauch, an émigré painter and the daughter of Germany's greatest living writer in exile, finds her twin brother in a coma after an attempted suicide. He left a mysterious note that sends her on a search for the truth about her brother's relationship with a man named Richard Halifax, and the dangerous secret he entrusted to the wri
