Espionage in the Besieged City: Codename Gardener

Name: Espionage in the Besieged City: Codename Gardener
Author: Blazing Red Lotus

谍影围城：代号园丁

by Blazing Red Lotus (烈焰红莲)

Status: Completed
Length: 726k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 7mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

(Traditional spy thriller, no transmigration or golden finger. If that’s not your thing, please don’t flame the author.)

In the autumn of 1941, at Rong Manor, an isolated compound in Shanghai’s occupied zone, five “guests” from very different walks of life are trapped by a feast worthy of a trap. They are a glamorous nightclub singer, a timid official, a cold-faced police officer, a shrewd editor-in-chief, and a mysterious Japanese section chief. The manor is under constant surveillance.

They are told that a “black ledger” has been stolen, containing evidence that could expose Unit 731’s branch, the “Laboratory No. 0.” The undercover agent codenamed “Gardener” is one of the five. A seventy-two-hour countdown to death has begun. Hand over the traitor, or everyone dies.

Inside the sealed cage, trust quickly falls apart. Everyone is acting, and everyone is watching. A code hidden beneath a qipao, a secret in a ring of keys, a cipher in a notebook, a past concealed behind a scar... As each disguise is stripped away, the secrets buried within prove deadlier than the enemy’s guns.

This is a desperate hunt with no gunfire. Who is the hunter, and who is the prey? Until the truth is revealed, anyone could be the next victim, and someone must be.

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869Reads · 30 days

32.6kReads · all time

104Shelf adds, last 14 days

6.7Score

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