Shanghai in 1936 is a place of great mystery, danger, and unpredictable changes around every narrow corner. Wealth vies with poverty under a pervasive blanket of greed and desperate entrepreneurship, while expats and tacit occupation forces shoulder their way into positions of power, prestige, and affluence. Ancient secrets rest next to stunning high-rises, hovels ring palaces, and bastions of wisdom stoically wait for the clinging vipers of vice and villainy to see the truth and release their clutches.

Shanghai is not for the weak.