Nicholai Hel is the world’s most wanted man. Born in Shanghai during the chaos of World War I, he is the son of an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father and is the protege of a Ja
“Nostalgic, richly textured. Sweetly evokes an innocent if hardscrabble lost age.” —Publishers WeeklySix-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mo
In the golden summer of 1914, Jean-Marc Montjean, recently graduated from medical school, comes to the small French village of Salies to assist the village physician. His first assignment is to treat
