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Restless electrical engineer Vilos Holbrook leaves his sheltered apartment in search of the city’s unvarnished life—and finds it beneath the chandeliers of a raucous students’ ball. There he meets a mesmerizing dancer whose warning to avoid his jovial old friend hints at a world of graft, liquor, and dangerous obligations.
When the fortune entrusted to Vilos’s guardian disappears in a polished stock swindle, comfort vanishes with it. Determined to trace the confidence gang, Vilos follows fragile clues through cabarets, shabby flats, political back rooms, and a criminal network that may reach far closer than he suspects.
Drawn toward the dancer while questioning whom he can trust, he must learn the rules of a city where loyalty is purchased, witnesses vanish, and every favor can become evidence.
