He uses criminal profiling to hunt down killers, only to discover that he himself is the perfect blueprint for a murderer.
Save one person or kill ten thousand? In this game of atonement, the stakes are all of humanity.
When evil becomes a passport to redemption, who can uncover the truth before the countdown ends?
Lu Shen, a professor of criminal psychology, has never escaped the shadow of his childhood. On the night his mother was brutally murdered, his cowardly silence made him an accomplice.
Ten years later, a series of kidnappings sends shockwaves through Gray Harbor City:
All the victims have moral failings. Before their deaths, they are forced to take part in a bloody "Game of Atonement," and chemical codes left at the scenes point directly to Lu Shen's unpublished research.
Seeking to redeem himself, he joins Jiang Li, a rookie detective investigating the case. But he gradually uncovers a deeper conspiracy:
Her brother, who has an antisocial personality; the wrongfully accused dead, condemned by his flawed profiles; even every corpse, are all pushing him toward the killer's "judgment seat."
When the mirrored countdown in the church crypt reaches zero, Lu Shen finally sees the killer's face:
It is a mirror curse that began in childhood, and he and Jiang Li have long since become the most perfect "codes of atonement" in this deadly game...
