Captain Jack Cray, a man chosen by America's OSS to assasinate Hitler in 1945, and Otto Dietrick, a German operative assigned to kill Cray, develop a strange sympathy and understanding for one another as they pursue their goals--both looking forward to the end of the war.

In 1912, John Wade and his brother, William--children of the American consul--were kidnapped off the street in Chungking, China, and raised in the house of Eunuch Chang, the city's master criminal. Twenty-five years later, John is the eunuch's most valuable ward, a trained assassin and swindler, and William has become a talented forger. On the brink of World War II, China is in chaos. When William betrays Eunuch Chang and escapes to central China,...