Lying Low on a Lonely Island

Name: Lying Low on a Lonely Island
Author: Spring Breeze Leaves No Trace 007

潜伏孤岛

by Spring Breeze Leaves No Trace 007 (春风了无痕007)

Status: Completed
Length: 126k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 6mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

Shanghai in 1941 is a battlefield without gunfire. Lin Mo, the youngest chief of the secretariat in the Wang Jingwei regime, conceals a Browning pistol beneath his immaculate suit and deadly sharpness behind his gold-rimmed glasses. When he finds a classified message encrypted with the “Plum Blossom Cipher” in a safe, cold sweat soaks through his shirt. There is a traitor within the organization, and this person knows that he is the Chinese Communist Party’s ace agent, code-named “Winter Plum.”

Three days later, he watches as his own contact is dragged into an interrogation room by agents from the 76th. Amid the screams, Lin Mo elegantly adjusts his glasses and offers a Havana cigar to the head of the secret police, Chu Nanshan. No one sees the blade hidden in his cuff cutting into his palm. The blood and pain keep him alert. Suddenly, he recalls the eternal truth: the most dangerous enemy often wears the friendliest mask.

In this deadly game, every smile is a mask, and every pleasantry a test. When Xu Wanying, the “wife” sent by the military intelligence service, slips suspicious potassium cyanide into a hidden compartment in her vanity drawer; when a miniature roll of film is concealed in the steps of a white rose tango; when Chu Nanshan suddenly asks, “Did you recover from that cold you had in Beiping three years ago?” These everyday dangers are more suffocating than the barrel of a gun.

“On this isolated island,” Lin Mo says to his reflection as he tightens his tie, the pistol in his holster loaded, “the one who survives isn’t the cleverest player, but the one who’s best at making himself a pawn.” As the customs clock tower strikes midnight, he straightens his collar and heads for the banquet hall where bloodshed is all but inevitable. The deadliest game awaits him there

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