Sinopsis

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka in the Alaskan panhandle -a 'temporary' safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming go an end. His life a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster, homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems withourt worrying about the upcoming Reversion. And to make matters worse, in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just committed a murder...