Tortured with knives and threatened with a slow, painful death: things are getting really nasty for Lieutenant Bill Mahone of Naval intelligence. The entire Chinese city of Tientsin is under siege from within, and all because the city’s sacred idol, The Green God, has been stolen. Convinced he is hot on the trail of the jade deity, he is relentless in its pursuit, but is walking on a razor’s edge between a touch of heaven and the taste of hell.