The Master of Rain

Shanghai, 1926. A city of British Imperial civil servants, American gunrunners, Russian princesses and Chinese gangsters.

For Richard Field, it represents a brave new world away from the past he is trying to escape.

Seconded to the police force, his first moment of active duty is at a brutal crime scene where a young White Russian woman lies murdered.

But as Field begins to peer through the glittering surface to the murky depths beneath, he sees a world where everything has a price, and where human life is merely another asset to barter.