The Dark Spy

A spy thriller set during the War of Resistance against Japan, based on real history. The story follows the intelligence war in Shanghai after the Battle of Shanghai.

It begins with a mysterious intelligence group that has been embedded deep inside enemy ranks for years. During the Battle of Shanghai, it provides two vital pieces of battle intelligence, drawing the attention of both the Military Statistics Bureau and Japan's Special Higher Police.

To take control of the group, Dai Li, head of the Military Statistics Bureau, sends Wang Xing, chief of its Shanghai station, to infiltrate the Special Higher Police and begin an operation to replace one man with another. But before Wang Xing can establish himself, he is targeted for assassination. As it happens, this very assassination brings the mysterious intelligence group gradually into the open.

What Wang Xing never expected was that the order for the assassination had come from the Military Statistics Bureau. And the ones carrying it out were none other than the mysterious intelligence group.

To evade the Special Higher Police's investigations, the group, led by senior spy Cheng Xiaofeng, repeatedly defuses the crises caused by its operations, and the group...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.