Richard Ireton, a Hong Kong-based correspondent for America’s top news
magazine, is about to discover dangerous new political currents flowing
through South China. Assigned to investigate the disappearance of an
American businessman, he uncovers the growing influence of Qigong, a
Taoist meditation and martial arts movement, among Chinese organized
crime gangs and plotting army troops.
This subversively spiritual, anti-foreigner cult rallies around an enigmatic
leader, Great Master Wu, posing an imminent threat to peace in Asia and the
continent’s relations with the United States. As Ireton’s reporting takes him
closer into the story, he stumbles across both a political conspiracy complete
with strange spiritual dimensions and secret hideouts of China’s underground
Christian church.
