This book may not count as a feel-good story, though it is certainly fun to read. But if you’re hoping to skim a couple of chapters and get a quick dose of entertainment, you may be disappointed.
That’s because this is a novel wrapped in the trappings of mystery and science fiction, but at its heart, it is about human nature.
Several cases of people going missing, occurring almost simultaneously across multiple time zones, and an attempted murder lead to an ancient family. All signs suggest that the family is using China’s space station to capture a missing satellite equipped with a powerful laser weapon. What do the kidnappers intend to do? Other clues indicate that for over two thousand years, this family has existed to accomplish a single mission. Are they controlling the satellite to fulfill that mission, or do they have some other purpose?
The family’s mission also involves questions of time and space. As the story unfolds, these mysteries are gradually unlocked, one by one.