Alaska has become the Jews' homeland after WWII. Here, a Jewish detective investigates the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay interweaves an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir with a bittersweet fable of identity, home, and faith. Audie Award finalist and winner of a Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly. "Wildly entertaining. [His] linguistic pyrotechnics dazzle...Riegert's fabulous reading makes it all the more palpable."—BookPage