On the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Xie Buchen, deputy director of Intelligence Division 76 and a man with three identities, receives assignments from Division 76, the Military Statistics Bureau, and the Chinese Communist Party. Jiang Xiyu, a Harvard economics graduate who has returned from studying abroad, disguises herself as both the niece of a notorious traitor and the daughter of a Japanese aristocrat. The story begins aboard the Victoria, a liner sailing from Hong Kong to Shanghai...