Countless lowly lives among the masses, each left with a bitter, complicated taste and no way to defy fate.
Perhaps they weren't truly regretful, but they were truly finished.
This book is built around real major cases, tracing the downward spirals of ten fallen officials. You can find a reflection of yourself in every one of them. Not in that inch, but in the moment they moved that inch forward, and in the sound that rang in their hearts.