Codename: Mirror

On the eve of Nanjing's fall in 1937, Shen Yan slips into the Japanese intelligence network behind the mask of a “spoiled staff officer.” He drinks whiskey with agents from the 76th Bureau with one hand and sends Morse code to Yan'an with the other, while carrying orders from the Plum Blossom Society in his pocket. When he sees through a Military Statistics Bureau traitor's lies by reading his microexpressions, no one suspects that this carefree young master of Jinling still has the smell of gunpowder from last night's arsenal bombing beneath his fingernails.

“Staff Officer Shen, I hear you've been spending a lot of time with the Japanese adviser.” His superior's probing question comes with the cold muzzle of a gun.

Swirling his champagne, Shen Yan smiles, though a glint of sharpness flashes in his eyes. “How else could I send the ‘Imperial Army's’ weapons where they really belong?”

His three identities are like a shattered mirror, each reflecting a different shade of blood. With the Military Statistics Bureau's assassination squad aiming at him, the Japanese Special Higher Police's hounds picking up the trail, and his own organization mistakenly believing he has defected, Shen Yan dances on a wire, weaving truth from lies and wagering his life on a game of upheaval in an unseen war.

Until one day, he sees his own photograph in a top-secret Japanese military file. The note beside it reads: “Mirror, highest-priority elimination target”...