In 1998, on the eve of Macau’s return to China, gambler Lu Chen owes 300,000 yuan in gambling debts while trying to save his gravely ill younger sister. He is forced to join a confidence racket known as the “Eight Generals of Qianmen,” whose target is Su Wanqing, the daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon.
He plays the “Reverse General,” tasked with losing money, acting pitiful, and making people feel sorry for him.
And she really does feel sorry for him. She helps pay his debts, takes him out to eat, and says, “I believe you.”
But on the night the trap closes, Su Wanqing looks at their complete defeat and smiles faintly.
“You really thought my father made his fortune in legitimate business?”
It turns out the mark they spent a year setting up was a hunter all along.
In deeper waters, South Korea’s “Ocean Story” watches like a tiger ready to pounce, Japan’s Yamaguchi-gumi makes its moves in secret, America’s five great families reach into Macau, and the Italian Mafia’s “omerta” code quietly comes into play...
The Eight Generals of Qianmen: Advance, Reverse, Deceive, Escape, Wind, Fire, Eliminate, and Spread Rumors.
In this game, who is the hunter, and who is the prey?
When a gambler realizes he’s nothing but a disposable pawn, the only thing left to wager...
is his own life.
