Amazon.com description: Product Description: Twelve years ago, Agent Briggs Tanner was sent into China to help strategic mastermind General Han Soong defect to the West. The escape went perfectly, until, somehow, the secret police interrupted them at the final rendezvous. Tanner barely escaped the country -- but Soong and his family were arrested, and made to disappear...

Now, Soong has resurfaced. He's contacted the CIA with the message that he is alive and must get out of China -- and the only person he will trust is Briggs Tanner. But even as Tanner prepares to confront the chaos of his own past and once again go up against China's brutal secret police, forces around the globe are watching him, waiting for the moment that will secure their power, lead the world to the brink of war -- and seal Tanner's fate once and for all...