Chinese Communists plan to take the American capital markets for half a billion dollars under the counter. In a superbly complex plan involving the offer of Chinese state secrets to the CIA, agents Ella Nidech and James Burlane must turn the affair to the advantage of the U.S.

"A wildly wicked yarn about Asian politics, power and high finance. It's worth ten routine cloak-and-swagger dramas." —New York Daily News

"Damned near perfect." —Kirkus Reviews