Chien Marc is a beat cop in one of the toughest precincts in the city of Ji’an, nicknamed the Mígōng (the “Maze”). Half-Chinese and half-white, he's an outsider in his own world. One raw, rainy night Chien comes across the body of an old friend, with a beautiful young woman standing over it. She was only trying to help him, she claims —then vanishes into the thundering darkness. So begins a dizzying spiral of intrigue and treachery as he tracks her through the Maze and finds himself plunged into a stew of corruption, international intrigue and unexpected romance.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Thirty-Nine Steps” meets “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” in this gritty police thriller set in the racing backwaters of today’s China, a world where trust doesn’t exist and time isn’t your friend.