New York City. October 1919. There's a dead man on the Tenth Avenue. It's 2 A.M.

Scarred by the Great War and hungry for work, Eddie Rum is paid to clear the corpse. The dead man is nameless and Chinese. In a nation living under the Chinese Exclusion Act, the body will not be noticed. But Eddie Rum has a secret – he is mixed race Chinese and he is passing for white.

To the men in the saloon, Eddie is another tough guy. To the cops of the city, Eddie is invisible. To the residents of Chinatown, Eddie is a ghost from the past. But under the law of United States, Eddie shouldn’t exist, and it leaves him one mistake away from deportation.

Unwilling to let the stranger die without a name, Eddie turns reluctant detective. His search to identify the dead man leads Eddie down a hardboiled road of greed and violence. From Chinatown to Harlem, from the stink of dive bars to the cigar smoke of exclusive gentleman’s clubs, Eddie Rum comes up against immigration corruption, a Manhattan land grab, and a conspiracy to rig the World Series.

"Jung sweeps readers into the mean streets of 1919 New York City in this gritty series debut."

– Publisher's Weekly, BookLife

“As a fast-paced, action-packed novel, this story will appeal to fans of murder mysteries and urban crime set at the dawn of Prohibition.”

—Karen Bordonaro, Historical Novel Society

“The setting is vivid and moody… I often felt like I was watching this story unfold in living black and white.”

—Karen Siddel, Reedsy Discovery