Reefs in a Sea of Spies: Shanghai, 1938

In the late autumn of 1938, the Yongchang Trading Company opened in Shanghai’s French Concession. Shen Xingyuan appeared as a merchant recently returned from abroad, but in reality, he was a key member of the Communist underground’s Nightingale Cell. By bribing Zhou Fuhai, a clerk in the Wang puppet regime’s General Affairs Office, he successfully infiltrated the secret police. Meanwhile, Gu Mingcheng, ace agent of the Military Statistics Bureau’s Skywolf Action Group, arrived in Shanghai disguised as a battlefield reporter for the Shen Bao. He had been ordered to assassinate Chen Mozhi, the Wang puppet regime’s propaganda minister. Takahashi Yuichi of the Japanese Kempeitai learned of the Military Statistics Bureau’s operation through an informant and laid a trap, waiting for his prey...