Underworld: The Dragon Who Broke Out of Prison

A kitchen knife, freshly sharpened that morning, severed the neck of a loan shark and shattered the ordinary life of Shen Mo, an auto mechanic's apprentice.

To protect his humiliated father, he killed a man with that knife. Sentenced to fifteen years in prison, he entered Beishan City Prison, an underground cage surrounded by high walls where the strong preyed on the weak. There was no law or human decency here, only the rule that fists decided who came out on top. There was no peaceful way to pass the days, only a constant struggle to survive. From silently enduring the bullying in his first cell to making his name with a single brutal punch, Shen Mo was tempered again and again in blood and sweat. The timid boy shed his fear and grew claws and fangs like a savage beast.

He befriended Chen Guodong, a prison kingpin whose depths were impossible to fathom, and stood up to Scorpion, the all-powerful boss of the prison block. He survived one deadly ambush after another, becoming a hardened man even the seasoned inmates dared not look in the eye. But a fifteen-year sentence could not confine a soul unwilling to sink into despair, and high walls and electric fences could not hold back a wild dragon soaring into the heavens.

A carefully planned prison break freed him from his cage and brought him into the even more dangerous, far broader underworld. From a low-level thug risking his life with every job to a boss commanding his own territory, from brutal close-quarters combat to calculating strategy, Shen Mo climbed a staircase paved with blood and fire and waded through a mire of schemes and betrayal. With a blade honed to the bone and an unbending spirit, he smashed through every obstacle, one step at a time, in the gray world where black and white intertwined. In the end, he rose to the pinnacle of the underworld, beyond the reach of all others, and forged a legend of the Mad Dragon that belonged to him alone.

He had witnessed humanity at its filthiest, yet held fast to the most stubborn principles. He had wielded the cruelest blades, yet protected the people he most wanted to keep safe.