December 7, 1941, the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The neon lights of Shanghai’s International Settlement flicker beneath the shadow of war as rival forces stir in secret. British businessman Henry Chen navigates the Chinese and Japanese business worlds. On the surface, he is a profiteer with an eye only for money, but in reality, he is “Raven,” an elite military intelligence agent who has been undercover for ten years. When three bodies with their throats slit turn up at the docks, half a copy of the Shen Bao and a mysterious film canister marked “Operation Nightingale” in one victim’s pocket tear open the bloody curtain on the espionage war in the Far East.
As the investigation deepens, Henry discovers that the murders are closely connected to a missing shipment of strategic tungsten ore, a new operation by the Japanese secret service known as the Plum Blossom Agency, and rumors of a traitor among Chongqing’s top officials. Even more dangerous is a mysterious woman in a beret who follows his every move like a ghost. The red umbrella in her hand is both a deadly weapon and a symbol of a prophecy of death.
As he cracks the “Nightingale Code,” Henry is forced into a battle of wits with his old enemy, Hideo Tanaka, chief of the Japanese Special Higher Police. At the same time, he must contend with power struggles within military intelligence. When the truth begins to emerge, he discovers that he has fallen into a carefully laid trap: the so-called “Operation Nightingale” is aimed directly at the attack on Pearl Harbor, which will shock the world three days later...
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