In 1997, Chen Mo, a Shanghai street punk buried in gambling debts, is forced aboard a smuggling ship. From washing dishes in New York's Chinatown to becoming “Mr. Shadow,” the man at the helm of a transnational underworld empire, he spends twenty years carving a bloody path to power. But at the pinnacle of his power, Chen Mo discovers that all he really wants is to return to that old alley and tell his seventeen-year-old self: Don't get on that ship.
