Bloodshed in Hunan, 1939–1945

Modern criminal investigation expert Liu Xingguo wakes up to find himself dropped into the intelligence office of the Ninth War Zone in Hunan, amid the flames of 1939. Using modern forensic techniques to take on Japanese and puppet-state spy networks, he makes the lurking demons and monsters learn what it means to be outclassed by an entirely different level of technology, from the street battles in Changsha to the dense forests of western Hunan!

Seven volumes link six pivotal battles, from the trail of corpses on a rainy night during the First Battle of Changsha to the final purge of the remaining enemy in the Battle of West Hunan.

Agents from Zonggong Residence and the Mei Agency shadow him everywhere. Conspiracies follow one after another: the “Cherry Unit,” the “Xuanwu Plan,” and the “Fallen Leaves Plan.” Moles known as the “White Fox” and “Night Owl” lurk at the heart of the operation, while poison, biological warfare, and encrypted telegrams conceal trap after trap.

Leading his brothers through a hail of bullets and the fog of covert warfare, he defuses bombs, cracks codes, captures spies, and roots out traitors, using fingerprints, ballistics, and trace evidence to solve bizarre wartime cases.

From the gloomy mansion at Shejiatang in Changsha to the germ laboratory in Changde, from a coded rendezvous on Yuelu Mountain to poison hidden underwater in the Xiang River, every confrontation is a matter of life and death, and every clue conceals a threat.

Spies lurk everywhere, and it is hard to tell the loyal from the treacherous. Modern forensic thinking collides with the devious tricks of wartime espionage in a bloody struggle spanning seven years, more perilous than battlefield artillery and harder to fathom than the fog.