In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives--one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home--are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime. Eurasian homicide detective, Martin Bach, has survived the war and the surrender: now all he has to do...

"Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked up in a secret prison and tortured by a 'visionary' scientist. But now they're offering him a chance of freedom. Ordered to infiltrate one of Med'ariz's flying cities, obeying the bloodthirsty zealot Qhudur, he must find fellow anti-war activists in the enemy's population and provoke them into an uprising against their rulers. He should refuse...