Operative Joe Gall heads to Hong Kong to identify a bizarre new weapon and the mysterious forces behind it in this thriller from the Edgar Award nominee.

What could've caused the sudden, multiple miscarriages among the ordinary, healthy women working at an innocuous Asian company? To solve the mystery, Joe Gall must head to Hong Kong-where he will tangle with a Taiwanese businessman and Soviet agents to uncover a complicated conspiracy...

"[Philip Atlee is] the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction." -Larry McMurtry, The New York Times
"I admire Philip Atlee's writing tremendously." -Raymond Chandler