Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War vet living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. The immensely powerful - and occasionally homicidal - Shanghai billionaire Sidney Cao has asked Ellie to investigate his son's suspicious new American business partner. Ellie knows she can't refuse, for a variety of reasons. Ellie is grudgingly swept up into the elite social circles of Sidney's three children. The mission is a nuisance, but a harmless one, until a waitress is murdered at one of Tiantian's parties...