Chen Xuan, a young Chinese American, inherits the thousand-year-old tradition of the knife-on-credit trade, along with mysterious prophecies and the power to shape cause and effect. He arrives in North America thinking this is just another journey selling knives on credit, unaware that he has already stepped into a vast whirlpool. From street-corner prophecies to stirring up Wall Street, from influencing state elections to wielding power, he uses his knife as a pen and prophecies as his strategy, until the entire North American continent becomes his grandest “knife-on-credit game.”
