Audio Book Description:
For sixty years Jewish refugeesand their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in thewake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own littleworld in the Alaskan panhandle,a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert toAlaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worryingabout the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, hismarriage a wreck, his career a disaster. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman haswashed up, someone has just committed a murder-right under his nose. When he begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy,word comes down from on high that the case is to be dropped immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all thepowerful forces of faith,obsession, evil and salvation that are his heritage.
