Detective Zhong Fong, former head of special investigations Shanghai, has been exiled to Northwestern China. For the past two years he has had only scattered contact with the outside world. When two men come and whisk him away in the middle of the night, Fong is curious. It turns out that the men want him to investigate the brutal murder of seventeen men, foreign scientists and businessmen, on board a ship on Lake Ching. The case is complex and Fong's future is on the line. Is he up to it after the years of isolation?

David Rotenberg is a professor emeritus of theatre studies at York University, where he taught graduate students for over 25 years. He has released 12 novels which have been published by Penguin, Simon and Schuster, McArthur and Company, St. Martin's Press, and ECW. His novels have been optioned in the past for major motion picture adaptation. City Rising is presently in negotiation with London producers. He I s the founder and artistic director of the world-renowned actor training institute - Pro Actors Lab. His historical fiction novel entitled, City Rising is based on true events and explores the epic stories of the Iraqi-Jews, and the prominent Chinese families of the renowned port city across several centuries. It will be published by At Bay Press in the Fall of 2023.

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