This is a novel of love, lust, crime and passion. Sasha Perlov is a man of conflict. Striving to secure the beach communities of New York City destroyed by Storm Sandy and haunted by the world he left behind in Russia. As a NYPD detective, he finds himself driven by passion for a woman whose husband has been found dead on the living room floor. It is Sasha's duty to find out who is responsible for his death. As a modern Inspector Javert, Sasha never gives up a case; he hates loose ends. The son of a Jewish dissident and the grandson of the Hero of the Battle of Stalingrad his family's tortured past never leaves him. The tangled web of history follows him to America--the New Jerusalem. Sasha's life is controlled by the contradictions that never leave him.