City Rising: The Bend in the River

by David Rotenberg

On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his three trusted followers: the Bodyguard, his favourite Courtesan, and his Head Confucian. The warning from the First Emperor before he commits suicide is to watch for the White Ships on Water and so the progeny of the three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1998779610
• ISBN13: 9781998779611
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: At Bay Press
• Length: 375 Pages