The Shanghai Thirteen: A New Storm Rises

In 1935, Shanghai's foreign concessions were rife with undercurrents. The Japanese Black Dragon Society was infiltrating the Chinese districts with a military map of Songhu. Du Yuesheng, godfather of the Green Gang, secretly summoned the Thirteen Guardians: a mysterious organization made up of twelve eccentric martial-world masters, each with a unique skill, and their handpicked disciples.

"Bloodhand" Cui Jiu's poisoned darts could pierce bulletproof glass. "Red Beauty" Bai Yulan's silkworm threads took lives amid the dance music at the Paramount. The "Golden Abacus" hid bomb-making formulas in its golden beads. When the three were ordered to intercept intelligence, they discovered that the "Map of Manchurian Treasures" in the Japanese envoy's possession was connected to a robbery in the Forbidden City twenty years earlier...

The gears of the Bund clock tower ground their sworn alliance to pieces, while the plane trees in the French Concession hid the bones of brothers in arms. When Cui Jiu's artificial eye caught the glint of a blade in Bai Yulan's sleeve, and the Golden Abacus's ledger revealed secret deals between the Green Gang and the Japanese, this underworld hunt gradually became a reckoning with traitors. Yet amid the tides of the Huangpu River, the footsteps of the Thirteenth Guardian, unknown to all, still echoed...