Lincoln Rhyme took on an almost impossible task - together with his partner Emilia, he tracked a cargo ship carrying more than 20 stowaways and a smuggler nicknamed "Ghost". When they locked the position of the freighter in the vast sea, a mysterious explosion swept most of the stowaways into the seabed, and the survivors were also hunted by "ghosts". Rhyme and Amelia must find the two families who narrowly escaped the shipwreck in New York City's maze-like Chinatown, and uncover the cruel and mysterious "ghost."
