New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fierce reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's exposés have made him legendary among readers - and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, a novelist who has become a pawn of the Chinese government. A timely new novel from the award-winning author of "Waiting".