Victor Li and his sister Julie are children of a marriage between a Chinese father and an American mother. Their mother has passed away prior to the book's beginning and they are being raised by their father. They have grown up in a city in Northern California and experienced a normal American childhood. Their father, in partnership with a group living and working in China, has opened and successfully ran a small chain of four restaurants. Victor is a member of his high school's basketball team and looks like he will probably play college ball when suddenly his father is murdered. Victor looks through his father's effects and finds that all is not as it seemed. He finds a letter from his father written to him and to be read if the man dies. In that letter it is urged that Victor travel to Beijing, China in order to find out more of what his father's work was really all about. And to put the capstone on this request a young man turns up from Beijing, becoming identified as his father's adopted son, and offering to guide Victor through his father's interests in China. Mr Nieh takes us on Victor's journey to Beijing and what he discovered while there. His father's real interests are described for him and clues to the individual that murdered his father are discovered. The book is a fast read, not particularly a draw as an all nighter, but certainly a well documented journey into another world, Chinese crime lords, and products that they send to the United States Their criminal activities are outlined and what they are doing as an absolute horror perpetrated against both their own people and the Americans that become their customers. The question of what Victor's father wants him to do is answered during the events of his search through the Beijing underworld and do make for a good story and a probable draw to pick up Mr Nieh's next published book.