“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
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
