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...