Stationed in Shanghai, Kovic is the kind of field man the CIA doesn't have enough of. He's a chameleon, fluent in language and manners, the sort who can disappear in any crowd, but when called upon can do what has to be done with force and cunning. His bosses are wary of him, just as they are wary of the Chinese. How has he survived this long in Shanghai? Has he been turned? When a joint U.S.-Chinese mission to North Korea goes horribly awry and his entire team is killed, Kovic is under suspicio...